Re^3: Perlplexation - foreach shoulda Known

in reply to Re^2: Perlplexation - foreach shoulda Known (Rosetta: Perl, Python, Ruby)
in thread Perlplexation - foreach shoulda Known

eyepopslikeamosquito writes:

Curiously, this is very easy in Python...

And Riales's task too: remember -- slices win ;-)

for elem in some_iterable[::3]:
    do_something(elem)
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Then again, I'd argue that it's really not so curious given how much iteration support/use/avoidance is baked-in (iterator and sequence protocols, generators, comprehensions, slices, etc).

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