Re^2: iterative foreach loop

for my $newline (@lines) { printf $newline; # print the contents of the filled array }
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This seems confusingly verbose to me. Why not simply

print @lines;
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There's no need for printf, for an explicit loop or for a lexical scalar. TIMTOWTDI, but there is clarity in simplicity.

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Re^3: iterative foreach loop by zarath (Beadle) on Nov 15, 2017 at 11:38 UTC
Good points, thanks for that! I think I picked up some bad habits by learning Perl mainly from some old scripts I've come across at work. Starting to think the guy who wrote them shouldn't have...	[reply]