[Sent off-group by mistake. On #perl6 the impression was that now Pipe
is becoming a Role for things that can lazily be read from; and thus any
filehandle or lazy list fulfills them. Larry, please help us understand
if this is the case.]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:53:41AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>  The semicolon operator no longer builds a list of lists, but a list
>  of pipes, which are specially marked Lazies that know they came from
>  pipe operators (including semicolons as a kind of pipe operator).
>  When bound to an ordinary splat array (or in fact any splat array whose
>  type isn't Pipe), the Pipes flatten as if they were comma separated.
>  When bound to an array of type Pipe, each pipe stays discrete.

I thought the class Pipe was reserved for what the result of open-"foo|"
is in Perl 5? That's what we call it in Prelude.pm at least; if it needs
to be renamed maybe IPC could work.

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