Re: Perl loops should use break, not last

From: gargoyle (gargoyle_at_no.spam)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:12:30 GMT

On 2005-01-30, A. Sinan Unur <1usa@llenroc.ude.invalid> wrote:
>> I think that's fairly logical,
>
> That is because you have grown used to it.

I grew used to it because the C book told me that's how it works. It's
true that's arbitrary, and they could have gone either way.

I think they chose the most convenient path though. Makes it easy to
write simple one-line statments and omit braces. Stuff like that comes
up all the time in my code, but in Perl I'm bound to the { and } keys.
Ouch, did you hear my pinky scream out in pain? It's in agony from all
those keypresses. ;-)

> But there is a language that depends on indentation to figure out what's
> going on. It is Python.

I do not wish to convert to a bondage/S&M language. ;-)
  
> But your coding preferences are not at issue here.

I know it's about language design and all that. So I'll not critisize
Larry's decision, whatever he goes with is probably for the best.

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