Re: How to build ??/:: without ::

2004-08-30 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:31:00PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote: : On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 08:24, Aaron Sherman wrote: : : > $foo => 'a' or 'b' : : I was too focused on the idea of C/C<::> as a pair-like construct, : and I missed what should have been obvious: : : a ?? b :: c : : IS : :

Pipeline Performance

2004-08-30 Thread Rod Adams
Over in the Perl Question of the Week list, ( http://perl.plover.com/qotw/ ), we entered a discussion of the performance, or lack thereof, of pipelining in Perl 5. Randy Sims's example code demonstrates this well, and is attached at the bottom of this post. The overall point is that pipelining

Re: Pipeline Performance

2004-08-30 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:34:20PM -0500, Rod Adams wrote: : My question is, is there anything that can be done within Perl 6 to help : alleviate this issue. All lists function lazily if they can in Perl 6. Larry