Thus it was written in the epistle of Bart Lateur,
> On 7 Aug 2000 16:06:44 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>
> >This RFC contains two proposed changes. First, as it is common to want to
> >removed newlines upon reading a file,
> >
> > while (chomp(<FILEHANDLE>)) {
> > . . .
> > }
> >
> >should become the equivalent of
> >
> > while (<FILEHANDLE>) {
> > chomp;
> > . . .
> > }
>
> ...
>
> >C<chomp()> called in a scalar context would leave its argument variable
> >untouched and instead return a C<chomp()>ed version of that variable's
> >contents.
>
> These two contradict each other. If the latter is realized, the while
> loop of the former ought to be exited at the first empty line, or where
> it contains just a zero (and an optional newline).
I guess that's not yet clear to me. After all, as I had pointed out to me,
while(<FILE>)
means
while (defined($_ = <FILE>))
not
while ($_ = <FILE>)
even if the chomp() is handed an empty line, it will return a defined value.
Only at the point at which <FILE> returns undef will the while cease.
Ted
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