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Re^3: what would you like to see in perl5.12?

by TimToady (Parson)
on Aug 21, 2007 at 17:02 UTC ( [id://634132]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: what would you like to see in perl5.12?
in thread what would you like to see in perl5.12?

START blocks provide "do once" capability in Perl 6.

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Re^4: what would you like to see in perl5.12?
by blazar (Canon) on Aug 21, 2007 at 17:47 UTC
    START blocks provide "do once" capability in Perl 6.

    Whoa! I will stop complaining like whatever the common English idiom for a recurring, annoying and insisting whiner is.

    Would someone care how it would apply to the original (Perl 5) example?

    while ( <FH> ) { next if $_ eq 'foo'; # Where foo can only appear once in the file print; }
      That's not a "do once", that's a "test true once". So you'd want something more like a flipflop operator:
      next if ($_ eq 'foo') ff False;
      Presumably the compiler can recognize that the False test will never be true.

      Those parens bother me though. Maybe the flipflop should be of looser precedence...say, the same precedence as ??!! perhaps... Hmm...

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