The index variables there kept tickling me as not right. This is Perl, not C, there
has to be a way to do this without explicit indices and no copying. Guess what.
:) It's actually simpler than I was expecting and definitely goes in my "cool snippets" file.
sub mapn (&@) {
my ($cb, $n) = splice @_, 0, 2;
splice @_, 0, 0, (undef)x$n;
map{
splice @_, 0, $n; $cb->(@_[0 .. (@_ < $n ? $#_ : $n-1)]);
} 0 .. (@_/$n)-1;
}
sub mapnz (&@) {
my ($cb, $n) = splice @_, 0, 2;
splice @_, 0, 0, (undef)x$n;
map{
splice @_, 0, $n; $cb->(@_[0 .. $n-1]);
} 0 .. (@_/$n)-1;
}
BrowserUk++ for the inspiration!
Update: fixed mapnz
Makeshifts last the longest.
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