On Oct 10, 12:59 am, shlo...@iglu.org.il (Shlomi Fish) wrote: > On Sunday 10 October 2010 03:09:21 Ron Bergin wrote: > > > > > On Oct 7, 3:07 pm, shlo...@iglu.org.il (Shlomi Fish) wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > after being tired of telling Perl newcomers about the same problems with > > > their code times and times again, I've decided to create this page > > > detailing "Perl Elements to avoid": > > > >http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/ > > > [quote] > > C-style for loops > > > Some beginners to Perl tend to use C-style-for-loops to loop over an > > array's elements: > > [/quote] > > > Have you considered including an example were it would be appropriate > > to use the C-style for loop, such as when the iterator needs to change > > by some value other than 1? > > Well, in this case, PBP recommends to use a while/continue loop: > This is one area where I disagree with PBP, at least in most cases.
The while/continue loop is more verbose and to the beginner more difficult to understand. > > But it's a good idea to show both versions. Thanks! I would agree that showing both versions would be best. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
