These things sound like perfectly reasonable CPAN modules.
What's the block prevenenting their implementation w/in the
perl5 framework?
Ariel Scolnicov wrote:
>
> Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Just to point out that the standard CS term is "merge".
>
> `merge' produces a list of items from 2 (or more) lists of items;
> `zip' produces a list of pairs (or tuples) of items from 2 (or more)
> lists of items. So in a language like Haskell which uses square
> brackets for lists and round for tuples (and `==' for equality, etc.):
>
> merge [1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8] == [1,5,2,6,3,7,4,8]
>
> and
>
> zip [1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8] == [(1,5),(2,6),(3,7),(4,8)]
>
> (note: `merge' is often also used to denote producing a list which
> respects ordering; then the above merge would produce
> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]).
>
> [...]
>
> It's called `zip'. Really.
>
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