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From: dsto...@dstorrs.com (David Storrs)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 14:52:21 -0700
Local: Thurs, May 1 2003 5:52 pm
Subject: Re: Explanation re: chaining postconditionals?
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 04:07:41PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: [MikeL asks: why no post-X chaining?] > the biggest problem IIRC was nested loops. how do you bind $_ two or Same thing it would be if I did this: > more times in one expression. > blah($_) for @array1 for @array2 ; > what is $_ bound to? for (@array2) { > if/unless are easily done with || and && so they aren't even needed. Not to reactivate this whole thing, but that argument doesn't hold a lot of water. I<unless> is not really needed--you can get the same thing by saying C<if (not $foo)>. Likewise, C<and> and C<or> are not needed--you can get the same effect with && and || and a bunch of parens. Come to think of it, you don't really B<need> to be able to return multiple values, right? You could always just pass a reference to an array in as an extra parameter, then stuff that array before returning.... Basically, why draw the line here? > expr && return for @array ; Seems fine. Exit the current function unless expr evaluates to false once for each element of @array...presumably, you are testing something in @array, but not necessarily. > finally, larry said they aren't going to be supported and that is a good Yep, that IS a good enough reason. Like Paul, though, I _would_ like > reason all by itself. to understand Larry's thinking. This call seems arbitrary, which is unusual for Larry. I'd even be happy with "My experience tells me that this will cause a lot of problems down the road, but I can't put my finger on why." --Dks You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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