in reply to list reversal closure

... understandability for someone new to the language with only a brief explanation at most...

I can't see how that's a meaningful measure of anything interesting. Why not "For which any docs fail to contain the first-following non-consonant?"

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Re^2: list reversal closure
by apotheon (Deacon) on Aug 21, 2006 at 22:28 UTC

    It doesn't measure something interesting. It makes it possible for people comparing examples from different languages to actually compare examples from different languages without having to necessarily learn a half-dozen or more new languages.

    print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
    		 - apotheon
    CopyWrite Chad Perrin

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