it would be easy for the eye to pass over that and miss the difference

I agree a little, but at some point I'm willing to trust the programmer to be a bit more aware. (Also, this is the sort of thing that I would try to shove off into a library, so I can think about it as a chunk instead of in detail.)

Of the various permutations which might make it more obvious, I'm torn between an actual comment (since, if we don't trust the programmer to read code accurately, is there any point to putting a subtle clue to a subtle difference into the code at all?) or by using the @array - 1 form. So, let's do both: 

  # loop over all but last element
  for ( my $i = 0; $i < @array - 1; ++$i )

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But this probably just reflects my history with c-style loops (and their tendency to use the less-than operator, instead of the less-than-or-equals...). I wonder if writing it as a foreach is any more self-documenting: 

  # loop over all but last element
  foreach my $i ( 0 .. $#array-1 )

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Thanks for the feedback, though. :)

In reply to Re^4: Getting the next array element while still keeping the current one by tkil
in thread Getting the next array element while still keeping the current one by Anonymous Monk

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