Are you serious? $.., $..., $.... etc?! Aiieeee!!! he screams and runs away. Please stop this thread.
Hopefully helpfully yours, Steve -- Steve Tolkin Steve . Tolkin at FMR dot COM 508-787-9006 Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire St. M3L Boston MA 02109 There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments are by me, not Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries or affiliates. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duane Bronson Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:03 PM To: Ronald J Kimball Cc: boston-pm@mail.pm.org; Palit, Nilanjan Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Loop index in foreach? $.. should be the iterator count in the parent loop, $... should be the iterator count in the grandparent loop, ... my @fruits = ('apple','banana','cantaloupe'); foreach my $fruit (@fruits) { foreach my $minusone (0..1000) { foreach my $plusone (2..1000) { die "inner loop count wrong" unless $plusone == $.+1; die "outer loop count wrong" unless $minusone == $..-1; die "way outer loop index wrong" unless $fruit eq $fruits[$...]; } } Ronald J Kimball wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 09:34:43AM -0700, Palit, Nilanjan wrote: > > >> I think it'd be fairly easy for Perl to auto initialize & increment a >> loop index in all loops & provide that to the user in a special >> variable. "$." is an excellent example. I think it'd be a great addition >> to Perl's excellent (& long) list of special vars, making for yet more >> elegant & concise code. >> > > What would you have Perl do in the case of nested loops? > > Ronald > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > Boston-pm@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > > -- Sincerely *Duane Bronson* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.nerdlogic.com/ 453 Washington St. #4A, Boston, MA 02111 617.515.2909 _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
