In a message dated Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Luke Palmer writes:
> >  before  { ... }     # run before first iteration, only if there is at
> >                        least one iteration
> >  after   { ... }       # run after last iteration, only if there is at least
> > one iteration
> >  noloop  { ... }    # run if there are no iterations
>
> I don't know. Seems like an awful lot of keywords to remember what a
> simple if should take care of.

I dunno... coming from a system administration background, the
header/record separator/footer thing is so common in sysadmin tasks that
some way to do it without an iterator and if/else would be really welcome.


>   while print("Enter your input: "), $_=<> { }
>
> Is quite yucky. So a feature to handle this might be nice.

I think Damian already alluded to being able to say:

$fh is chomped is prompted("Enter your input: ");

Trey

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