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Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 03:03:38PM -0800, Jon Ericson wrote:
> : while(<>) {...}
> You left out the most important phrase:
>
> "or whatever we decide is the correctest idiom."
I saw that, but I didn't know what to make of it. The Perl 5 idiom is
pretty magic and I don't know if it's correcter to make it more or
less explicit:
for *$ARGV {...}
Only I wonder if the magic handle should be called $INPUT or
something.
> So if, as has been pointed out, @$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.
Lovely? But I'm afraid of extra typing. ;-) It looks like the shell
idiom:
for f in *; do ...; done
Jon