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At 03:02 PM 1/21/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Why all the fuss? Often, you would *want* to access that lexical after the
>loop terminates, for instance to check how it terminated.
Why would you want to check it when the condition is typically boolean?
while( my $line = <FILE> ) {
I think many people just "expect" it to work the other way. If I recall, C++
originally worked this way (at least some compilers) and went the
other way.
-Melvin
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