draegtun/rebol-GatherTake

gather/take from Perl6

Rebol port of Perl's gather/take

Why?

• Allow me to learn more Rebol!

• Experiment in playing with code as data

• Learn r3 modules

• Yet make it work r2 & r3 compatible

• Lesson on working around caveats (see next bit)

• Look into packaging and test mini-suite (methinks)

Caveats

• Rebol3 comes with a take function

See Also

• collect/keep functions from Power-mezz: http://www.rebol.it/power-mezz/mezz/collect.r

• Different approach used between collect/keep & gather/take

• And since implemented I've noticed that Rebol3 has collect/keep also!! :(

• ... and t uses approach closer but not identical to mine :)

• Pro & Cons of different approaches?

• Perl6 links - http://perlcabal.org/syn/S04.html#The_gather_statement_prefix | http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Perl_6_Programming/Lazy_Lists_and_Feeds#Gather_and_Take

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright 2013 Barry Walsh (Draegtun Systems Ltd | http://www.draegtun.com), all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms described in the Artistic 2.0 License - http://opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-2.0