From: Jos Backus <josb@...>
Date: 2000-12-15T04:29:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7246] Re: Why isn't Perl highly orthogonal?

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>

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