Re^2: while ()

Indeed this is what calin himself found, but it seems to be version dependent too (with no substantial differences, however). See Re^3: Reopen file when contents changed?.

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Re^3: while () by calin (Deacon) on Jun 07, 2005 at 16:49 UTC
I now think that `while ()` deparses as `for` because `while (1)` is "optimised" (whatever that means) into `for(;;)` in perl 5.6.1. `$ perl561 -MO=Deparse -e 'while(1) {1}' for (;;) { '???'; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]