Re: Coupla Questions

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From:

David L. Nicol

Date:

June 12, 2001 12:13

Subject:

Re: Coupla Questions

Message ID:

3B266902.26F9923D@kasey.umkc.edu

Damian Conway wrote:
> 
> Graham wrote:
> 
>    > Now I may be wrong here, but I thought I remembered something about
>    >
>    >   .foo being the same as $_.foo
> 
> It's certainly a possibility.
> 
>    > In which case you could do
>    >
>    >    for (%database.$accountnumber) {
>    >
>    >            .interestearned += $interestrate * .balance
>    >
>    >    }
> 
> Larry doesn't favour using C<for> thus, beause it introduces a sly
> list context. That argument convinced me.
> 
> But there might well be another keyword for the same idea and that might tie
> into switch statements too.
> 
> Damian


The data working group settled on %_ for this, as I recall it was
a consensus without objection.



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