On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Larry Wall wrote:
> (Had an interesting typo there. I put => insteaqd of ->. I wonder
> how much trouble that sort of thing is gonna cause. Maybe pairs
> can be disallowed or warned about where a pointy sub might be
> expected.)
To add to the list of helpful warnings, I ran across the following
"thinko":
for ($x = 0; $x < 23; $x++) { ... }
which (I believe) is a legitimate for-loop across a multidimensional array
literal:
for (...) -> $_ { ... }
but almost always means
loop (...) { ... }
We need to make a list of these.
/s