On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 07:39:54AM -0800, David Storrs wrote: : Given that Perl 6 won't support an actual do-while loop a la C++ (and : yes, I know that Perl5 didn't either), how would you accomplish that? : That is, I'd like to have a loop that runs once, then checks its : condition to see if it should repeat and continues to repeat as long : as the condition is true. : : I don't think this works, but here's what I'm look for: : : { : $foo = readline; : ...do stuff with $foo... : } while ( $foo );
That's spelled loop { $foo = readline; ...do stuff with $foo... } while ( $foo ); these days. Larry