On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:03:19PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
> Schwern observed:
> >This may be a consequence of the example used
> >
> > while $n++ then $foo > $bar
> >
> >which I immediately associated with.
> >
> > if $n++ then $foo > $bar
>
> Yeah, I can certainly see that.
>
> Perhaps this is yet another argument for insisting on:
>
> while do {$n++; $foo > $bar}
>
> instead.
That looks like syntactic sugar for
while (do) {$n++; $foo > $bar}
and could be interpreted as either:
while "do" {...} ## perl5 bareword
while do() {...}
Luke's "then" feels like the best fit on the one hand, and the worst fit
on the other. Everything else feels worse, though.
Z.
