[OT] Perl woes

[Jonathan Stowe]

2009/1/28 Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+londonpm at hst.org.za>:
> On Wednesday 28 January 2009 14:30:20 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:
>>
>> use warnings FATAL => 'all';
>
> I think you've got two mistakes here. If you wanted to go round the loop
> $tbl_width times starting from 0, you needed either
>

I suspect that the actual problem is the use of the comparison rather
than assignment in the first clause of the C style for.

/J\
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