Re: [FWP] That was productive...

[Stas Bekman <sbekman@iil.intel.com>]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Jeff Pinyan wrote:

> 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.

Of course... I was talking about using @array in scalar content to find
out the number of entries vs $#array+1 . 

Otherwise you are absolutely right :)

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