At 08:42 22/3/01 +0100, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> At 05:01 21/3/01 +0100, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > >>>And now, please, could anybody tell me the difference between those >>>two? Is it that foreach is a keyword in Perl while select is one in >>>SQL? >> >> select has zero ordering semantics. > >I am fully aware of the difference of the underlying concept of SELECT >in SQL and foreach in C-Shell, thanks. > >What I didn't get was that all you did was changing the term foreach >(with no implied concept) against select (again no concept) - end up >with a syntax that is the same apart from using different words. > >So if we use a declarative approach using select semantics but label >the construct "foreach", would everybody be happy? I doubt so.
oh no - I oppose both select and foreach as every example I have seen so far are examples of things that should be done in preprocessing ;) Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
