> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:44 PM
> To: Perl6 Language List
> Subject: Re: NEXT and the general loop statement
> Wasn't NEXT supposed to do something tricky, such as being mutually
> exclusive with LAST? I remember a debate some time ago where some
> complained "but that would be hard to implement", and the solution
> being mostly correct but failing in this case.
>
> I seem to recall NEXT being created in order to do things like this:
>
> for @objs {
> .print;
> NEXT { print ", " }
> LAST { print "\n" }
> }
>
Is this even possible? This would require Perl to know which iteration is
going to be the last one. In many cases there is no way to know this:
repeat {
