[ABE.pm] 'for' statement Q

Ricardo SIGNES perl.abe at rjbs.manxome.org
Fri Aug 15 12:10:40 PDT 2008


* "Faber J. Fedor" <faber at linuxnj.com> [2008-08-15T14:40:57]
> > I think maybe you need to do some last-minute cramming with the camel
> > book, or at least the llama.  This is all pretty basic stuff.
> 
> I'm looking at the Nutshell book and the llama book.  Both treat the for
> and foreach as different control structures.  

Nutshell kinda sucks.  Llama 4 is pretty clear.  It introduces 'foreac LIST' on
page 46, then three-part for on page 142, and immediately after explaining
three-part for it has a section explaining that for/foreach are interchangeable
and that "real world" Perl programmers will always write for, because it saves
four keystrokes.

I don't know about Llama 1-3 or 5.

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rjbs


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