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Re^3: Interview Prepration
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 04, 2005 at 17:53 UTC
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That's a really thin line to walk -- thin enough that I think it's almost meaningless and definitely more confusing than useful. Is this a for loop?
foreach ( my $i = 0; $i < 10 ; $i++ )
{
print "\$i is $i\n";
}
Is this a foreach loop?
for my $user (@names)
{
print "Found user $user\n";
}
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Yes, and yes. Spelled "f-o-r", pronounced "foreach". Spelled "f-o-r-e-a-c-h", pronounced "for".
If you start handwaving "for and foreach are the same" in front of people enough, they wonder why the variable "didn't localize in my for loop... I thought for did that!".
It really is important to distinguish the two kinds of loops, even though 90% of the time we write "for", we prounounce it "foreach".
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Actually I think the community has selected a third way to avoid this debate, whatever it actually says in Perlsyn. The way they solved this debate is they say for LIST and 3 arg for loop or c-style for loop or if you are like me the while loop that likes to crossdress and call itself a for loop.
I agree with chromatic, your usage, while strictly correct is confusing and misleading, especially when it leads you to obvious contortions like saying
foreach(;1;) { }
is a "for" loop and
print for @list;
is a "foreach" loop.
Hopefully youll drop this piece of pedantry as its just confusing.
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Re^3: Interview Prepration
by jZed (Prior) on Apr 04, 2005 at 18:02 UTC
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The difference between "for" and "foreach" is four characters of extra typing for the latter. Other than that they are the same. Because you apparently associate one of the words with a Perl-style loop and another with a C-style loop is not sufficient reason to say that "for" is different from "foreach". The words may have a different history, but their use in scripts is identical. | [reply] |
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That's a bit like saying the difference between George Bush and George W Bush is only the W. After all, you can use George Bush to refer to either one.
But they really are different people! They're not the same!
And that's the same with for/foreach. They are not the same! There's a for loop, and there's a foreach loop, and you can use the word "for" or "foreach" to refer to either one, but they are not the same.
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If you can show me a single instance in which the use of "for" instead of "foreach" makes a difference in code, I'll believe you.
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Re^3: Interview Prepration
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 05, 2005 at 08:48 UTC
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Your opinion has been noted. But perl doesn't care about your opinion, and will treat the keywords for and foreach to be the same. I'm just answering the interview questions - and I think that the interview is about probing my perl knowledge, and what I know about the opinion of some well known members of the Perl community. | [reply] |
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