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in reply to C-style for loop

Right ?
Maybe, maybe not. What's better depends on your preferences, and the task at hand.

About the only thing that's wrong is assuming that without further knowledge, one style is better than the other.

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Re^2: C-style for loop
by wol (Hermit) on Nov 17, 2008 at 17:06 UTC
    Indeed. C style loops can't be that bad - otherwise they wouldn't be part of the language, would they? :-)

    Certainly, C style loops are great if you're a good C programmer, and a novice Perl programmer: intuitive, predictable, easy.

    And I guess that described quite a lot of us here at some point in our lives?

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      So everything that is part of Perl is undiluted goodness? How about the two parameter open or the .. operator that is two completely different an unrelated operators depending on context (where the context can be very subtle at times)?

      Perl's for loop is much closer to "intuitive" than C's for loops. Sure, C's for loops are comfortable for a C programmer, but that doesn't make them intuitive, predictable or easy compared with Perl's loops.

      Perl is a different language than C. Just because you can write C (or FORTRAN for that matter) in Perl doesn't mean you should. Embrace the Perly goodness and cast off the C baggage - use Perl for loops unless you really, really, really absolutely can't avoid using a C style loop.

      Perl reduces RSI - it saves typing
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