Re: {....} if condidion

2000-08-31 Thread Decklin Foster
Tom Christiansen writes: > Look closer: do { ... } while does not require the reader to > scan down to find out the condition *BEFORE* the loop is > entered. With an if, it does. I believe what he's saying is that do { ... } requires the reader to scan down far enough to see if there is a whil

Re: Ideas that need RFCs?

2000-08-17 Thread Decklin Foster
[replying from here since this is the only way I received it] > "Myers, Dirk" wrote: > > > > $line/pattern/ ; > > > /pattern/ ($line) ; I don't think these should be changed. Here's how I tend to pronouce things: $x = 'foo'; # "x gets foo" /bar/;# "match on bar"