[ABE.pm] 'for' statement Q

Ricardo SIGNES perl.abe at rjbs.manxome.org
Fri Aug 15 11:16:47 PDT 2008


* Walt Mankowski <waltman at pobox.com> [2008-08-15T14:13:42]
> They're required for C-style for loops, but you usually don't need to
> use C-style for loops in Perl.  The syntax with the single list
> argument is much more common.

...and at least in my experience, writing 'for' is more common than 'foreach'
in all circumstances, because you save four keystrokes.

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rjbs


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