On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Dave Whipp <d...@dave.whipp.name> wrote:
> Richard Hainsworth wrote:
>>
>> The following arose out of a discussion on #perl6. Junctions are new and
>> different from anything I have encountered, but I cant get rid of the
>> feeling that there needs to be some more flexibility in their use to make
>> them a common programming tool.
>
> I strongly agree with you, but Larry has repeatedly said that he wants to
> view Junctions as lexical sugar rather than as a powerful programming tool.
> So I'm thinking that we'll need to experiment with modules before anything
> gets admitted to the core language.
Maybe you could have something like a filter function that takes a
junction and a test condition and returns a junction of those
eigenstates from the original one that passed the test. You could
then handle the Blackjack problem by saying something to the effect
of:
$p = [+] @p;
$d = [+] @d;
if $p <= 21 { # Could the total be 21 or less?
$p where= { $_ <= 21 } #[ infix:<where> filters the junction
according to the given criteria. ]
if $p > $d { say "you won!" }
} else { say "you went over." }
--
Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
