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On Tue May 27 00:21:53 2003, asperl wrote:
>
> This is a feature request:
> @list = ([1,2], [2,3]); # an array of arrays
>
> I would like to be able to write:
>
> foreach my @sublist (@list) {
> ....
> }
>
> This would be equivalent to:
>
> foreach (@list) {
> my @sublist = @$_;
> ....
> }
>
> Same for hashes.
>
> This request is specifically for foreach - since foreach expects a scalar,
> if it sees a list or a hash it knows to do something special.
>
> Need to decide what to do if an element in list is not actually a
> ref, but rather a scalar.
>
Does anyone wish to comment on this feature request?
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
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