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From:
Mark A. Biggar
Date:
September 30, 2005 19:44
Subject:
Re: Look-ahead arguments in for loops
Message ID:
433DF7F4.4080204@biggar.org
Damian Conway wrote:
> Rather than addition Yet Another Feature, what's wrong with just using:
> 
>     for @list ¥ @list[1...] -> $curr, $next {
>         ...
>     }
> 
> ???
> 
> Damian
> 

Shouldn't that be:

for [@list, undef] ¥ @list[1...] -> $curr, $next {
         ...
}

As I remember it zip hrows away extras, not fills in with undef.

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