in reply to pointy counters

This is kind of neato, I suppose, but I'm having trouble figuring out why. What's wrong with a for loop and a range operator?

for my $i (1..10) {
    print "i = $i\n";
}

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Re^2: pointy counters
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 20, 2011 at 23:50 UTC
    That is merely point-ish, not pointy :)
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Re^2: pointy counters
by tobyink (Canon) on Dec 21, 2011 at 10:55 UTC
    Well, duh. The range operator isn't even nearly pointy enough!
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