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Nicholas Clark
Date:
April 25, 2008 04:17
Subject:
given vs for
Not being familiar with the big picture design* of Perl 6, I'm not able to
answer this. I assume that there is a clear reason, but what is it?
Nicholas Clark
* Heck, I'm also not familiar with the little bits either.
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Subject: Re: [perl #53186] Modifying $_ inside 'given'
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:32:19 +0000 (UTC)
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Paul Fenwick <pjf <at> perltraining.com.au> writes:
>for ($foo) {
> when ($_ < 500) { ++$_ }
> when ($_ > 1000) { --$_ }
> default { say "Just right $_" }
>}
Ahh... that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
Makes you wonder why the 'given' keyword was added, when for/when is so close...
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