SPUG: English-speak about Perl-speak "for" loops
BenRifkah Bergsten-Buret
benb at speakeasy.net
Mon Sep 18 10:47:36 PDT 2006
Ingy dot Net wrote:
> How would you better express:
> for (my $i = 0; $i < @array - 1; $i++) {
> $array->[$i + 1] += $array[$i];
> }
>
> The C style loop has its place in Perl.
>
This:
for (my $i = 0; $i < @array - 1; $i++)
becomes this:
for my $i (0 .. $#array)
regardless of whether you intended to use 'array' as the name of two
different variables or had a typo.
-- Ben
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