use Perl

• while ... (Score:1)

  by runrig (3385)

  In scalar context, it's an iterator, like readline, returning the first thing on the first call, then the next thing, etc., so you can do:

  while (my $file = glob("*")){
    print "$file\n";
  }
• Uhm, no (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  Language lawyer questions do not a good interview question make.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by phaylon (6115)

    Though it might be a nice question for giving extra points if you ask it like "Why could this be?"

    --
    Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by grinder (1100)

    You are perfectly correct.

    (Note to self: refrain from sarcasm when writing).
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147)

      Heh. I was 40/60 on whether you were serious or not.
• it's not "crypto context" (Score:2)

  by merlyn (47)

  You just need to get out of your head the notion that "list in list context means length of same list in scalar context". It's a bad model. In fact, there are more things that don't return the count than do [perlmonks.org]. So you just learn each one individually, and all of it makes sense.

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