Re: array/hash manipulation [was :what's with 'with'?]

[Eric Roode]

on Fri Jul 20, Mark REED wrote:
>I'm sorry, but I fail to see how this is a big improvement over the
>current version:
>
>    while (my ($key, $val) = each %my_hash)
>    { ... }

And a workalike to

     while ( ($a,$b,$c) = (@a, @b, @c) )
or
     for my ($el1, $el2)  (@foo, @bar)
     
is very easy to code in perl 5. At the risk of sounding reactionary,
this doesn't seem like a Big Win for perl.

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 Eric J. Roode                                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Senior Software Engineer, Myxa Corporation