Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 10:45  21/3/01 +1100, Tim Vernum wrote:

>>I think that the desire to do something like
>>
>>      Foreach subdir in toolkit
>>      do
>>              Compile subdir/source to subdir/classes
>>              Jar subdir/classes to subdir/subdir.jar
>>      done
>>
>>is a valid request for a build tool, and I don't see it as
>>being declarative.
> 
> there is always
> 
> select isFile(*) from toolkit
> do
>   Compile subdir/source to subdir/classes
>   Jar subdir/classes to subdir/subdir.jar
> done
> 
> Which is declarative ;)

And now, please, could anybody tell me the difference between those
two? Is it that foreach is a keyword in Perl while select is one in
SQL?

Stefan

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