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

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Bernie" == Bernie Cosell <bernie@fantasyfarm.com> writes:

Bernie> Elegance is in the eye of the beholder, I guess, but does anyone know any 
Bernie> benchmarks/rulesofthumb for the relative efficiencies of the two?  I'd 
Bernie> think that the increment/test version would be faster than the build-a-
Bernie> huge-list version, at least if you had a lot of values to iterate over.

Not in fairly recent versions of Perl -- a foreach loop iterating over
a dotdot list creates the items on the fly.  No longer a big list in
memory.

"Iterate at will!"[1]

[1] A bad parody of that awful movie that used the phrase "Intestinate
    at will!", in which I nearly felt the same pain in my seat as the
    on-screen characters, except from an entirely different source.

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