On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:57:17 +0100 Matthew Seaman <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've always found that 'unless' makes a great deal of sense when used > in the alternate syntax: > > do_foo() > unless $condition ; > > As far as I know, perl and its descendant ruby are the only > programming languages that let you put the condition test after the > action, IMO this is a bad mistake that other languages were quite right not to copy - a test shouldn't come after a block of code unless it's evaluated after the block (as in repeat...until) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
