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Changeset 24104 for docs/Perl6

Timestamp:

11/28/08 19:38:22 (6 weeks ago)

Author:

ruoso

Message:

[spec] anything that behaves like a list might implement .Iterator(). And the name is really .Iterator(), not .iterator();

Files:

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116	116	=head1 The Iterator Role
117	117
118		The iterator role represents the lazy access to a list, walking through
119		one of:
	118	The iterator role represents the lazy access to a list, walking through:
120	119
121	120	=over
…	…
127	126	=item Stream (mostly for IO)
128	127
	128	=item In fact, any value that wants to behave like a list
	129
129	130	=back
130	131
131	132	It's important to realize that the iterator of a list can be accessed
132		by the .iterator() method (but only the runtime will be calling that
	133	by the .Iterator() method (but only the runtime will be calling that
133	134	most of the time), and the implemenation of each iterator is private
134	135	to the list and implementation specific.
135	136
136	137	This is a minimal API that should allow custom iterator
137		implemenations, but this spec should be expanded in the future to
	138	implementations, but this spec should be expanded in the future to
138	139	provide additional API for batch-aware iterators.
139	140