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in thread Generating lists from a charset

I've thought about that, but it is difficult to see how to make it an true iterator without changing the interface to return some kind of 'handle'?

There is one other existing non-handle, scalar context iterator, each, and that is almost universally eshewed because of it's global nature.

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Re^5: Generating lists from a charset
by QM (Parson) on Dec 25, 2005 at 20:53 UTC
    There is one other existing non-handle, scalar context iterator, each, and that is almost univerally eshewed because of it's global nature.
    Yes. Besides the explicit handles of things like readdir and readline, the only other one I can think of is m//g, which is another beast entirely. It does have an explicit handle of sorts though.

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