On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 13:22, David Whipp wrote: > Aaron Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > what about > > > > > > while (do_something_with_side_effects_and_check_still_ok()) { > > > > > > I presume we don't want to do look-ahead here. > > > > Yes, I think he was saying exactly that we will do look-ahead > > here. "we don't guarantee order of evaluation" is exactly saying > > that, no? > > As the "he" refered to, let me be absolutely clear that I am > *not* suggesting any type of look-ahead here. I was specifically > talking about the C<foreach> loop, where Perl is expected to > implement the iterator. In a C<while> loop, the programmer > controls the iterator, and would be surprised by a loop-ahead.
My bad. Missed the transition from foreach to while... oops!
