On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:14, Larry Wall wrote:
> So whereas Ruby's syntax actually tends to push you toward .each
> iterators, Perl 6's syntax will be fairly neutral on the subject,
> or maybe biased every so slightly away from method iteration by the
> width of about one character:
>
> for @foo { ... }
> @foo.each:{ ... }
>
> But then, a good Ruby programmer would have put a space where there's
> a colon anyway, so maybe it's a wash. If I wanted to make it even
> I'd pick something shorter than "each", I suppose. Except "all" is
> already taken. I suppose there's something to be said for:
>
> @foo.for:{ ... }
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I won't describe why I think each one would be appropriate, since if
it's not obvious, it's a bad choice ;-)
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