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in reply to Perl style question: loops with postcondition

What about 
while($condition)
  {...}

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Re: Re: Perl style question: loops with postcondition
by thelenm (Vicar) on Jul 22, 2002 at 23:50 UTC
    That one's not a post-condition, though... in the original post, all the examples will execute the loop at least once, but while($condition){...} has the possibility of never executing the loop (if $condition is initially false).

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