Re^3: Interview Prepration

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in thread Interview Prepration

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";
}
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Is this a foreach loop?

for my $user (@names)
{
    print "Found user $user\n";
}
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Re^4: Interview Prepration by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 04, 2005 at 18:04 UTC
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". -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re^5: Interview Prepration by demerphq (Chancellor) on Apr 05, 2005 at 17:03 UTC
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;) { }` [download] is a "for" loop and `print for @list;` [download] is a "foreach" loop. Hopefully youll drop this piece of pedantry as its just confusing. --- demerphq	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Interview Prepration by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 05, 2005 at 17:37 UTC
I don't know what's confusing about calling something what it is, especially when there's an authoritative source that most people should have already read, or will read now. In fact, I find it more confusing when people are inventing their own terms when perfectly good terms exist. No, I'll stand by the reference docs here, unless I hear otherwise from the man himself. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re^7: Interview Prepration by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Apr 05, 2005 at 18:20 UTC
Re^7: Interview Prepration by adrianh (Chancellor) on Apr 06, 2005 at 08:52 UTC

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