Thanks Toby!

You are the man to talk to! :)

Will you come to Sofia?

> For what it's worth, even if you can get last to work flawlessly, you'll still have problems with people using @_, caller and return inside the loop body.

• I think @_ can be easily fixed.

• Dunno if caller is somehow safely overwritable or if the stack can be manipulated. But even if not, I think it's tolerable for a functional construct not to be too transparent.

• return is certainly a problem

> For short lists, it's probably slower than yours because it needs to do more set-up before the loop starts.

Yep but I prefer the flexibility and back-portability of a pure Perl solution before worrying about speed as long as it doesn't exceed factor 10.

And I'm still fiddling with B::Deparse.

And as soon as a functional syntax is tested an accepted, it could easily be ported to XS.

Did you notice that Jesse Luehr's module (thanks for showing, BTW) explicitly warns about using it?

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