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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Do be do be do.
Message-ID: <1991Feb02.042902.1286@convex.com>
Date: 2 Feb 91 04:29:02 GMT
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From the keyboard of rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II):
:The thing you are trying to say is this:
:
:	while ($currentposition < $desiredposition)
:	  { &put(' '); }

Or:

    do { &put(' '); } while $currentposition < $desiredposition;

I think that because this is so different from 

    &put(' ') while $currentposition < $desiredposition;

was why Felix was shaking his head.


--tom
--
"Hey, did you hear Stallman has replaced /vmunix with /vmunix.el?  Now
 he can finally have the whole O/S built-in to his editor like he
 always wanted!" --me (Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.com>)