At 03:14 PM 1/21/2002 -0500, Melvin Smith wrote:
>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> ) {
Well let me rephrase, I see what you mean. (If a terminating condition
was met inside the loop then you might check it); what I meant was
the typical situation is the "while not EOF" or "while still MUNCHING".
-Melvin
