Re: Coupla Questions

[Damian Conway]

Graham wrote:
 
   > Now I may be wrong here, but I thought I remembered something about
   > 
   >   .foo being the same as $_.foo 

It's certainly a possibility.

   > In which case you could do
   > 
   >    for (%database.$accountnumber) {
   >  
   >            .interestearned += $interestrate * .balance
   >  
   >    }

Larry doesn't favour using C<for> thus, beause it introduces a sly
list context. That argument convinced me.

But there might well be another keyword for the same idea and that might tie
into switch statements too.

Damian