RE: Night of the Living Lexical (sequel to Apoc4: The loop keywor d)

[Melvin Smith]

At 03:02 PM 1/21/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Why all the fuss?  Often, you would *want* to access that lexical after the
>loop terminates, for instance to check how it terminated.

Why would you want to check it when the condition is typically boolean?

         while( my $line = <FILE> ) {

I think many people just "expect" it to work the other way. If I recall, C++
originally worked this way (at least some compilers) and went the
other way.

-Melvin