At 16:39 2001.06.19, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>On Jun 19, Bob Mangold said:
>
>>I may have a bug somewhere in my code, but I can't find it. Before I
>>look again though please answer this for me.
>
>>my ($line) = "hello";
>>foreach $line (<>){
>> ..... whatever
>>}
>>print $line;
>>
>>Should it print the last line in <> or 'hello'?
>
>I don't think the other responders tested their code. If they had, they'd
>see that $line would retain its value.
>
> my $line = 1;
> for $line (1 .. 10) { ; }
> print $line; # 1
>
>This is because the looping variable is implicitly localized to the loop
>itself. This is not a bug.
Has this always been the case? I was under the impression that the syntax
for my $line (1 .. 10) { ; }
was introduced to allow an easy way to localize the iteration variable. It doesn't
make mush sense if the itaration variable is localized by default.
Just wandering.
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