On 4/20/07, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip
You are omitting one critical argument. For people who are stuck with older versions of Perl and in your grep() example above the foreach expression creates its list in memory which may cause the program to die if the list is large enough while the C style for loop does not have this problem.
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I refuse to let the fact that some people cannot/will not upgrade their copy of Perl affect how I code or advise others to code. There are still people who wrtie/maintain Perl4 scripts, should I not tell people to use the strict pragma? Even IBM is shipping a modern Perl with AIX now. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
