Re: New S29 draft up

[John Siracusa]

On 3/18/05 12:18 AM, Larry Wall wrote:
> Autochomping is one of the motivations for switching from "while" to
> "for" for the normal line input method, since "while" might think a
> blank line is false, while "for" only cares whether the next value
> is defined.

Speaking of which (ha), does that mean we can ditch the hack that internally
auto-translates this:

    while($file = readdir(...)) { ... }

into this:

    while(defined($file = readdir(...)) { ... }

in Perl 5?  Because that'd be nice... :)

-John