Re: Lazy evaluation?

Rob Hoelz <hoelz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
In a statement like this:

local $\ = "\n";
foreach $num (1..1000_000_000) {
print $num;
}

or this:

local $\ = "\n";
foreach $line (<$handle>) {
chomp $line;
print $line;
}

does Perl use lazy evaluation? Thanks!

First one yes, second one no. (For the second, use while instead)

Xho

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