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[Abigail]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 07:57:20PM +0100, Johan Lindstr?m wrote:
> 
> >>> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 13:49 +0100, A Smith wrote:
> >>>> How many people do you know who could describe the difference between
> >>>> foreach and map in one short paragraph ?
> 
> foreach iterates over a list, map transforms a list.

Wrong. Map leaves the list as is - although it's able to alter its elements
because of the aliasing behaviour of $_ - but for has that ability as well.


> At 18:39 2008-04-23, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> >foreach runs a procedure and map runs a function.
> 
> I like that one.


Well, foreach runs a block, and one flavour of map does so as well.
The other flavour runs an expression.


I'd say, 'foreach' is a statement, 'map' is an expression.



Abigail
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