Raptor wrote:
>
>problem can be solved again in this way i.e. shell like syntax :
>
>while $i > 10 && $i++ && print $i;
>
>mean this
>
>while ($i > 10 ) {$i++; print $i};
But:
$i=-5; while ($i<=5) && $i++ && print $i;
doesn't mean the same as:
$i=-5; while ($i<=5) {$i++; print $i}
even if we ignore the fact that "while (...) &&" is a weird construct
(what is the truth value of a while statement?).
When $i is zero, the print won't happen in the first statement.
I too would like C's one-line if/for/while syntax as a matter of
convenience, but I grudgingly admit that Perl's way more than
makes up in unambiguity what it loses in convenience.
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