Re: [FWP] A major screw-up: infinite loop

[Kingpin <mthurn@tasc.com>]

> $upper = 2048;
> for  ($i = 1; $i <= $upper; $i ++) {
>    $date = &getadatestringfromsomewhere();
>    $my_date = &parseDate($date); # return a different date format
> }

The code you posted does not exhibit any "bug" on my system.  (Of
course, I had to take out the date stuff).  Do you mean that your date
functions were clobbering your global variable $i?  That's not a bug,
that's bad programming (and nothing "fun" about that).

Does the "bug" go away if you use the PROPER elegant

for my $i (1..$upper)

instead of that HORRID old C-syntax for-loop?

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