On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:21:29PM -0400, Joe Gottman wrote:
: Is a NEXT clause called before or after the update portion of a general loop
: statement? For instance, consider the following code:
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:
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: loop $n = 0; $n < 5; ++$n {
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: NEXT {print $n;}
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: }
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: Is the output 01234 or 12345?
I'd say 01234 on the theory that the 3-arg loop is really saying:
$n = 0;
while $n < 5 {
NEXT { ++$n }
NEXT { print $n }
}
and also on the theory that block exiting blocks always run in reverse order.
Larry
