On Tuesday 07 May 2002 16:24, Glen Starchman wrote:
>  On Tuesday 07 May 2002 02:47 am, Donal K. Fellows wrote:
[...]
>  Hm... originally, I had something that looked like this:
> 
>  iterator_function() (block_arg,...) { block_body}
> 
>  That turned out to be rather hard to debug, IMO.

ya IMO too

[...]
>  > [* Just one value at a time from the iteratable entity?  Nah.  But then
>  >    I'd go for iterating over more than one iteratable object at a time
>  > too. ]
> 
>  Some iterators return multiple values, if that's what you mean. It would be
>  rather trivial, for example, to create a String method that returned an
>  arbitrary number of chars per iteration:
> 
>  "hello".each(3) { |x| print ("chars=%s", x)
> 
>  => hel
>  => lo

what about
"hello".each(3)-> x  {print ("chars=%s", x)}
if you still have "-> " spare

think
x <-"hello".each(3) {print ("chars=%s", x)}
is funny

And hey is that all you let us know about your language ;P
come on give us an URL


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