> The reason this has not been built into the language is that there would > be an overhead associated with each loop to maintain this variable. The > Perl5 team felt that this was not acceptable given that most loops do > not need this information and, and you have noted, it's trivial to do > the work yourself if necessary, if not always terribly elegant. > > Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pjcj.net
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you :) Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
