Good grief!! Even the Perl documentation makes the distinction between the two: For Loops and Foreach Loops. Yes, it does go on to mention that "foreach" is a synonym for "for", but the documentation starts off by using "for" to describe the C-style form of "(;;)" and "foreach" to describe the Perl-style form of "$var (list)". And that includes separate, distinct entries in the table of contents -- i.e. they are listed as two different styles of looping, which is only clarified under "Foreach". So I'm perfectly in line with how the Perl documentation describes them. Not saying you guys are wrong -- but the original point was that it's a stylistic choice.

My point about discouraging "for" loops was if the two were actually two distinct looping styles (i.e. that "foreach" was not a synonym for "for", so that "for" could only be used for C-style for loops). Sorry if there was any confusion over that.

Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks

In reply to Re^11: eof not recognised when applying diamond operator to invocation arguments? by Argel
in thread eof not recognised when applying diamond operator to invocation arguments? by pat_mc

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