Why? What's more readable about
foreach my $foo (@bar) {
do_something($foo);
}
than
do_something($_) foreach @bar;
? All I see is twice as much to type and read with absolutely no difference to the clarity. Especially when you nest a few of those and it ends up something like
for $blah (@blah) {
# ...
# ...
# ...
if($whatever) {
last;
}
while($foo) {
if(@bar) {
# ...
while($baz) {
# ...
# ...
# ...
}
if($whatever) {
next;
}
elsif($snafu) {
last;
}
else {
# ...
}
# ...
# ...
}
# ...
}
}
# ...
# ...
}
It's atrocious. Please use a few last if ... and spare me the effort of having to eyeparse 15 levels of indentation.
Makeshifts last the longest.
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