Re: Re: How's your Perl?

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I couldn't get :foo while1" to work on my PC (Windows, perl 5.8.0).

I could get to work by rewriting it as "1while foo" or "1until!foo".

My own try involved a for loop--no dice. The best I could do was "for(;;foo){};" which is slightly too long.

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Re: Re: Re: How's your Perl? by hardburn (Abbot) on Oct 27, 2003 at 16:43 UTC
I could get to work by rewriting it as "1while foo" or "1until!foo". That loop will stop as soon as `foo()` returns false. The quiz didn't specify that `foo()` will always return a true value, so you can't assume it. ---- I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident. -- Schemer `:(){ :\|:&};:` Note: All code is untested, unless otherwise stated	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: Re: How's your Perl?
by hardburn (Abbot) on Oct 27, 2003 at 16:43 UTC

I could get to work by rewriting it as "1while foo" or "1until!foo".

That loop will stop as soon as foo() returns false. The quiz didn't specify that foo() will always return a true value, so you can't assume it.

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-- Schemer

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