Re: Coupla Questions

[Graham Barr]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:39:51PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> Hopefully, we'll get a "with" operator and everything:
> 
>       with %database.$accountnumber {
> 
>               .interestearned += $interestrate * .balance
> 
>       }
> 
> anything short of that, in my opinion, is merely trading old ugly for
> new ugly.

Now I may be wrong here, but I thought I remembered something about

  .foo being the same as $_.foo 

In which case you could do

        for (%database.$accountnumber) {
 
                .interestearned += $interestrate * .balance
 
        }

Graham.