Minimal Perl

Chapter 10. Looping facilities

10.1	Looping facilities in the Shell and Perl	331
10.2	Looping with while/until	333
10.3	Looping with do while/until	338
10.4	Looping with foreach	340
10.5	Looping with for	345
10.6	Using loop-control directives	349
10.7	The CPAN’s select loop for Perl	355
10.8	Summary	360

Recapitulation. Repetition! Redundancy!! The redundancy of repetition. The repetitive monotony of redundancy. The monotony of endlessly repeating a mundane task—repetitively!

Repetition is annoying—and dangerous. It can drive people crazy! Fortunately, civilization has evolved to the point where we have unfeeling mechanical agents who exist just to perform an endless variety of mind-numbingly repetitive tasks for us. The ones we call computers can process operations repetitively ...