On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote:
> Well, in this case, PBP recommends to use a while/continue loop:
>
> [code]
> for (my $i = 0; $i < $n ; $i += 2)
> {
> print "$i\n";
> }
> [/code]
>
> into:
>
> [code]
> {
> my $i = 0;
>
> while ($i < $n)
> {
> print "$i\n";
> }
> continue
> {
> $i += 2;
> }
> }
> [/code]
Can somebody please explain why the latter would be preferred to the
former? Coding mostly with C#, C++, and C; The latter looks much
uglier and much more error prone to me. Anyone familiar with a C-like
language should be quite comfortable with a C-style for-loop. If you
need $i anyway then I don't see the harm. If it's a performance
concern then I would cry premature optimization..
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