On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 05:09:39AM +0900, Craig Berry wrote:
> I would once have been offended that Perl provides a grep built-in which
> can be trivially implement in terms of map.

<off-topic>
Isn't it the other way around? You can't make map return a smaller number of
elements than it was called with, unlike grep.
</off-topic>

-- 
Jos Backus                 _/  _/_/_/        "Modularity is not a hack."
                          _/  _/   _/                -- D. J. Bernstein
                         _/  _/_/_/             
                    _/  _/  _/    _/
josb / cncdsl.com     _/_/   _/_/_/            use Std::Disclaimer;