On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:13:55PM -0500, Tanton Gibbs wrote:
> So, the purpose of map is to change every element of an array in the same
> way and create a new array with those changed elements.
Quite. Whenever you need to create an list by performing an operation
on every element of another list, think C<map>.
But map can also do more. For each element of your original list you
can create zero, one or more elements in the result.
$ perl -le 'print map { ($_) x $_ } (0 .. 3)'
122333
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