On Friday, March 1, 2002, at 10:22 , John Edwards wrote:
> I think it lies in the history of programming. Traditionally for loops
> look
> like this (when written in perl)
>
> for($i=1; $i<=100; $i++){
> print "$i\n";
> }
<from the Learning Perl book p63>
One could write, as an alternative to for:
$i=1;
while ($i<=100) {
print "$i\n";
$i++;
}
The difference is, as far as I can tell, is to have a format which is
easier to read and understand...
GmG
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