At 07:57 AM 04-03-2002 -0800, Larry Wall wrote: >Mark J. Reed writes: >: loop (my $i=0; 1; $i++) { >: </exegesis4> > >No, the scope of $i stays outside, per the previous decision. If you >want it inside you can always make $i an official formal parameter: > > for 0 .. Inf -> $i { ... } > >I think that better documents a counted infinite loop in any case.
Hmmm, in the more general case of: for (my $i = intializer(); condition($i); $i = advance($i)) { ... } where you might want $i to be lexically scoped in the for loop, is there a way to do it? Perhaps something like: initalizer() -> $i { LOOP: NEXT { $i = advance($i); redo LOOP if condition($i);} ... } except I'm not sure that that would have the same semantics. (Or, more generally, given a for loop with a "my", how sould perl52perl6 deal with it? >Larry