Hugh Sasse wrote:

# On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:
# 
# > While we're talking about IO, what do you think about starting to
# 
# Well, while we are talking about this sort of thing, what about adding
# those Haskell/Lisp/Prolog type list operations on Arrays (head, 
tail,...)?

Yes, yes. I'd like to see these as well. 

Plus reduce. (Sorry about the pun; I mean "And also the reduce 
operation.". :-)

Plus some other previously discussed items that seem to have fallen 
through the cracks. IIRC, this included zip (the Python and some other 
language thing, not the compression utility) and maybe one of its 
relatives. I think there was some other nice suggestion for parallel 
fetching of some sort. 

Didn't some people out there already do some prototypical Ruby code for 
some or all of these things?

Conrad Schneiker
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