That is true.. Perhaps it's better to introduce a bare block enclosing the
loop, and declare $count as 'my' just before 'foreach'.
Cheers,
Jing
On 9 Aug 2013, at 16:39, Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> wrote:
> On 08/09/2013 04:34 AM, Jing Yu wrote:
>> You probably can use 'state' instead of 'my' to keep $counter in scope.
>>
>> foreach my $e ( 'a'..'z' ) {
>> state $counter++;
>> if ( $counter == 5 ) {
>> say $e;
>> }
>> }
>
> and what if that code is run again in the same program? it will keep the last
> count and keep going causing it to loop way beyond 5.
>
> uri
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