[OT] Perl woes

[Philippe Bruhat (BooK)]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:30:20PM -0000, Jonathan Kimmitt wrote:
> 
> However, what about this one:
> 
> for (my $i==0; $i<($tbl_width - 1); $i++) { .... }
> 
> Is anybody seriously arguing this could possibly do anything useful. Yet
> it
> is not trapped out as an error unless you add the obscure syntax:

This is a different issue: it's not == vs. eq any more, but == vs. =.

And I'd do it like this:

    foreach my $i ( 0 .. $tbl_width - 2 ) { ... }

No more naughty comparison operators to misinterpret my data!

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 Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

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