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- adjective computing, programming, informal Typical of, or suited to, the
Perl programming language .
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Perl + -ish
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The ideal way might be to translate Haskell's definition from the Prelude, but given that Perlish lists don't have lazy semantics, and we then have to implement span etc., let's just write a noddy imperative version for now: sub groupBy {my ($fn, @elems) = @_; my @groups; my $a = shift @elems; my $b; my @group = ($a); while ($b = shift @elems) {if ($fn - >
Planet Haskell 2009
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