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It's almost as if pop and shift should work on scalars, don't you think? Then you can ditch chop as being silly.

You have a bit of a point, but for is a lot more than just map. It does different things. For example:

for my $foo (@bars)
{
     next if ($foo > 10);
     last if ($foo == 42);
     $foo += 12;
}
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Now, what would you expect that loop to return, if it were like a map? You can't skip or restart map in the same way, you realise, probably because it could cause some very strange behavior.

I'm all for condensation where it makes sense, but in this case, I think you're going to have a Swiss-Army-like function and no heavy lifting tools.

In reply to Re^3: Insensitive Scoundrel by tadman
in thread Insensitive Scoundrel by bluto

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