Re: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-04 Thread Jon Molin
John W. Krahn wrote: Jon Molin wrote: Jan Gruber wrote: Hi, Jon list ! On Friday 01 March 2002 11:29 am, you wrote: Hi list! I've always thought there's a difference between for and foreach, that for uses copies and foreach not. But there's no diff is there?

some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread Jon Molin
Hi list! I've always thought there's a difference between for and foreach, that for uses copies and foreach not. But there's no diff is there? my @a = (1, 2, 3 , 4 , 5); $_ += 2 for (@a); print @a\n; 3 4 5 6 7 my @a = (1, 2, 3 , 4 , 5); $_ += 2 foreach (@a); print @a\n; 3 4 5 6 7 why isn't

Re: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread Jan Gruber
Hi, Jon list ! On Friday 01 March 2002 11:29 am, you wrote: Hi list! I've always thought there's a difference between for and foreach, that for uses copies and foreach not. But there's no diff is there? AFAIK there's not really a difference between these two. It merely depends on your

Re: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread Jon Molin
Jan Gruber wrote: Hi, Jon list ! On Friday 01 March 2002 11:29 am, you wrote: Hi list! I've always thought there's a difference between for and foreach, that for uses copies and foreach not. But there's no diff is there? AFAIK there's not really a difference between these two.

Re: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Mar 1, Jon Molin said: Jan Gruber wrote: On Friday 01 March 2002 11:29 am, you wrote: I've always thought there's a difference between for and foreach, that for uses copies and foreach not. But there's no diff is there? AFAIK there's not really a difference between these two.

RE: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread John Edwards
goes, TIMTOWDI, and it wouldn't be perl without that ;) OTOH I could be completely wrong :) HTH John -Original Message- From: Jon Molin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 March 2002 15:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: some questions about for, foreach Jan Gruber wrote: Hi, Jon

Re: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Jon Molin wrote: It merely depends on your preferences, readable/maintanable code vs quick dirty. if there's no difference, what's the point of having both? I can't see how readable/maintanable would increase by adding functions with the same name, it'd rather

Re: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Mar 1, Jon Molin said: I've always thought there's a difference between for and foreach, that for uses copies and foreach not. But there's no diff is there? From perlsyn, Foreach Loops: The foreach keyword is actually a synonym for the for keyword, so you can use foreach

RE: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread Nikola Janceski
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: some questions about for, foreach I think it lies in the history of programming. Traditionally for loops look like this (when written in perl) for($i=1; $i=100; $i++){ print $i\n; } while foreach loops look like this. @array = qw(one two three); foreach (@array

TIMTOWDI Was: RE: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
It is really sad when people can't get their MLA (Multi-Letter Acronym) correct! It should be TIMTOWTDI There Is More Than One Way To Do It which is the Perl Hackers motto. Good Luck! Dennis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Nikola Janceski wrote: what the heck is TIMTOWDI? It's TMTOWTDI There's More Than One Way To Do It 00 pronounced like tim-toady. -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/

Re: TIMTOWDI Was: RE: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: It is really sad when people can't get their MLA (Multi-Letter Acronym) correct! It should be TIMTOWTDI There Is More Than One Way To Do It I prefer http://www.chapelperilous.net/

Re: TIMTOWDI Was: RE: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Brett W. McCoy wrote: On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: It is really sad when people can't get their MLA (Multi-Letter Acronym) correct! It should be TIMTOWTDI There Is More Than One Way To Do It I prefer Err, ignore that... I hit C-x instead of

Re: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread George Gunderson
On Friday, March 1, 2002, at 10:22 , John Edwards wrote: I think it lies in the history of programming. Traditionally for loops look like this (when written in perl) for($i=1; $i=100; $i++){ print $i\n; } from the Learning Perl book p63 One could write, as an alternative to for:

RE: TIMTOWDI Was: RE: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread John Edwards
Yeah, yeah. So I made a typo. :p -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 March 2002 18:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TIMTOWDI Was: RE: some questions about for, foreach It is really sad when people can't get their MLA (Multi-Letter Acronym

Re: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread John W. Krahn
Jon Molin wrote: Jan Gruber wrote: Hi, Jon list ! On Friday 01 March 2002 11:29 am, you wrote: Hi list! I've always thought there's a difference between for and foreach, that for uses copies and foreach not. But there's no diff is there? AFAIK there's not really a