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Postings from January 2002
Thus it was written in the epistle of Michael G Schwern,
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:58:34PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> > : while( my $line = <FILE> ) {
> > : ...
> > : }
> >
> > That still works fine--it's just that $line lives on after the while.
>
> This creeping lexical leakage bothers me. While it might make the
> language simpler, the proliferation of left-over lexicals seems
> sloppy.
.. . . if not to say downright ugly. The boolean of an if or a while is more a
part of the "inner stuff" than the "outer". What's the chance that it could
be considered so?
Ted
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