Luke Palmer schrieb: > That is not what it means in Python. You trapped me. :) Actually I don't know any python but I've once read a for/else construct in python. But obviously it doesn't dwIm.
>From the Python Reference Manual: When the items are exhausted (which is immediately when the sequence is empty), the suite in the else clause, if present, is executed, and the loop terminates. > I'm not sure about either interpretation, but admittedly Python's is > harder to emulate clearly. I'd like the For::Else behaviour more. Especially as I remember numerous times writing an if clause to check if a list is empty before processing it. I don't remember many cases where I wrote something like this: my $found; foreach my $item (@items) { if ($item = 'foobar') { $found = 1; last; } } unless ($found) { .. } To make it more clear, I could imagine (a subset of) this: for @items -> $item { say $item; if $item == 42 { say "I've found the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything!"; last; } } start { say "Mh, I'll look for 42!" } end { say "The end has been reached. 42 not found." } empty { say "No items." } -- Thomas Wittek http://gedankenkonstrukt.de/ Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]