On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:23:24AM -0700, William R Ward wrote:
> 
> Haven't you heard?  In perl 6, "for" will replace "foreach" and the
> C-style "for" will be called "loop."  Larry says that the C-style
> "for" loop is used far less often than the "foreach" style.  Sounds
> like it's being deprecated...

I've heard about this mythical perl6 thingy. Wasn't that the project
Larry was going to write apocalypses about first, one for every chapter
of the Camel? With 4 apocalypses in 1.5 years, 20 something chapters in
the Camel, I'm not to focussed on perl6.

Let's deal with things that exist. Like perl5. Perl 5.8 certainly isn't
marking 'for' as deprecated, so it won't disappear any sooner than 5.12.
BTW, if Larry is going to rename 'for' to 'loop', then he plans to keep
it around. Doesn't sound deprecated at all to me.....



Abigail

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