Damian Conway wrote:
In other words, classify() takes a list of values, examines each in
turn, and ascribes a "label" value to it. The call returns a list of
pairs, where each pair key is one of the label values and each pair
value is an array of all the list values that were ascribed that label.
Personally, I don't have a problem with us keeping 'grep'. However, if
we do decide to change the name, I suspect 'keep' might be readable,
short, SWIM, and not confused with other operations:
my @evens = keep { $^num % 2 == 0 } @numbers;
OK then. Just so that I can type of the final result in S29, let's see
if everyone agrees to several points that have been made in this thread:
1. "classify" is the real grep
2. convenience function, "keep" is probably a macro
3. "use List :compat" will get you a "grep" just as it will likely get
you "mv" on the OS module, etc.
Is any of this going to break the bank? If not, I'll get it in today.
