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Re: Apoc4: The loop keyword

From:
Melvin Smith
Date:
January 21, 2002 13:00
Subject:
Re: Apoc4: The loop keyword
Message ID:
5.1.0.14.0.20020121155345.0286ee58@pop.mindspring.com
At 12:50 PM 1/21/2002 -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
>In most other languages, you wouldn't even have the opportunity to put
>a declaration into the conditional.  You'd have to say something like:

I grudgingly agree here. Where did this shorthand come from anyway?
The first time I ever used it was C++ for() loops, but I'm sure it has 
roots older
than that. I guess Perl took shorthand to the next level so C++ arguments
wouldn't work here, *sniff*!

-Melvin




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