>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rob> Although 'foreach' is more useful, I think it's it's far more likely Rob> that someone realized that the two could be distinguished by context and Rob> needn't have different symbols, so the two were made equivalent. That "someone" would be one Mr. Larry Wall. The for/foreach alias has existed from the days when Larry was the sole coder of Perl, back in the Perl 1 days. Or maybe it was Perl 2 that introduced one loop or the other, I don't recall now. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
