Re: [FWP] That was productive...

[Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>]

On Jan 18, Stas Bekman said:

> The Perl idiomatic syntax is:
>     for( $i = 0; $i < @array; $i++)

Well, I would hardly call that idiomatic.  That's idiomatic from a C
programmer's perspective.  Rarely, in Perl, do you need the index of an
element when iterating over an array, and if you do, you can get that
simply with

  $i = 0;
  for (@array) {
    # ...
    $i++;
  }

But again, indices aren't need all too often, when you've got the flesh
and bones element at your fingertips.

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