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in reply to Re^3: In Need of Mentoring
in thread In Need of Mentoring

... the C-style loop will likely get you scolded on this website.

If you've never made a fencepost error, I salute you. The rest of us mortals seem to benefit from not having to worry about such things.

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Re^5: In Need of Mentoring
by JavaFan (Canon) on Jan 16, 2012 at 09:22 UTC
    Of course I've made fence post errors. But then on constructs that would be really awkward to do without C-style for loops.

    I don't think I've ever made a fence post error on 

    for (my $i = 0; $i < @array; $i++) {
   ...
}

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    where I would not modify @array or $i, nor use $i to look elsewhere in the array. But then, this is about the only case where I would not use a C-style for loop, but a Perl style foreach.
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