On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:30:29PM -0500, Andy Bach wrote:
> > And buggy, consider:
> my @timings = ( 11, 22, 3, 14, 18, 45, 18, ... 86 );
>
> Yeah, it's a constraint without a cause. Do you want to treat every "18" in
> the "if " or only the first? Why not use a counter? Is the data from a list,
> a file or … ? Do we know it's the 5th element ahead of time?
>
> But it seems like there'd have to be something else involved that eliminates
> a counter var.
I'm not sure if the original poster can't use a counter or was asking if there
was an automagic indicator.
This example shows one reason why a counter isn't a bad thing.
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