I'm a little confused by the man page for List::MoreUtils::first_value(). I've concluded that it's functionally identical to List::Util::first(). Can anyone please confirm?

I'm looking for the equivalent of the following:

## first example
  $result = first { defined $_ } map { foobar( $_ ) } @list ;

## second example
  foreach ( @list ) {
    last if defined( $result = foobar( $_ ) ) ;
    }

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In the first example, foobar is called on every list element, and first()'s economic magic is only applied to the defined operator. The second example demonstrates precisely the functionality I'm looking for.

Specifically, is there any list operator in any module that solves this problem? Otherwise, has anyone else encountered this missing functionality?

Quite sincerely- Jim

In reply to List::MoreUtils::first_value() question by tqisjim

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