cpan you have to see

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 05:23:23PM +0000, Edmund von der Burg wrote:

> Each language has its own idioms and ways to do things. In shell
> scripting the while true ... done loop is one of them.
> 
> In Perl the equivalent would be while (1) { .... }

Although true is 0 in the shell ...

$ true;echo $?
0
$ true && echo "it was true"
it was true

which is bloody irritating.

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