Almost there.
first itself is (almost) perfectly respectful of a lazy
@_. In List::Util, the pure-perl version of first() is:
sub first (&@) {
my $code = shift;
foreach (@_) {
return $_ if &{$code}();
}
undef;
}
The issue is (almost) completely that @_ is not lazy in the slightest. This is one of the biggest changes no-one will notice in Perl6 - the addition of the concept of truly lazy lists. You could code up something lazier with
Tie::Array::Lazy. Maybe something like:
open my $fh, '<', $filename or die "Cannot open '$filename' for readin
+g: $!\n";
tie my @arr, 'Tie::Array::Lazy', [], sub { scalar <$fh> };
first { <whatever> } @arr;
(Note that this is completely untested - I've never used Tie::Array::Lazy in my life.)
My criteria for good software:
- Does it work?
- Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?