A question of Style, was: SPUG: Sort an array question

[Jeremy Mates]

* Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRunningWolf at att.net> [2002-12-28T16:31-0800]:
> my personal preference would be to go with the 3-part for
> 
> 	for (my $i = 0; $i < @array; $i++) {
> 	    for (my $j = $i+1; $j < @array; $j++) {
> 
> since it's such a well-known idiom.

More readable for the C folks, but about 60% slower than using the
.. loop syntax.

http://www.sial.org/code/perl/bench/for-loops.pl

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