Re: Multiple for loop variables

[Eric Roode]

Peter Scott wrote:
>Graham Barr once allowed as how he thought it would be neat if you could say
>
>       for my($x, $y, $z) (@list) { ... }

ObLanguageMinimalist:

Um. Is this so frequently-used that the above syntax is preferable to:

    while ( ($x, $y, $z) = splice (@list, 0, 3) )   {...}

? (notwithstanding the destructive nature of splice)

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