Re: take()'s return value

2007-01-29 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:22:49PM +0100, Carl Mäsak wrote: : gabriele (>): : >I wonder: why does take inside a gather structure returns undef? : >I think it would be nicer if it could return the taken value, so that, : >for example one can write something like: : > : > say take 2 : > : >or like:

Re: take()'s return value

2007-01-29 Thread Carl Mäsak
gabriele (>): I wonder: why does take inside a gather structure returns undef? I think it would be nicer if it could return the taken value, so that, for example one can write something like: say take 2 or like: while cond($n) { my $res = compute($n) $n /= take($res) } there is a