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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 03:03:38PM -0800, Jon Ericson wrote:
: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> writes:
:
: > The p5-to-p6 translator will turn any
: >
: > while (<handle>) {...}
: >
: > into
: >
: > for @$handle {...}
:
: Including:
:
: while(<>) {...}
:
: to
:
: for @$ {...}
:
: ?
You left out the most important phrase:
"or whatever we decide is the correctest idiom."
So if, as has been pointed out, @$handle is too much role shear, then we
probably go with something like
for *$handle {...}
in which case, if there's no handle, it seems to degrade to
for * {...}
which seems amazingly something or other.
Larry