Re: fancy sorting

[Dan Lyke <danlyke flutterby com>]

Torsten Schoenfeld writes:
> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 06:26, muppet wrote:
> > What do you guys think?  Any ideas on how to improve this?
>
> Just a humble attempt to find and kill all C-style for-loops. :-)

So a silly question (that I could probably answer with some Googling,
but I'm on the ferry without net...):

It's my impression that

   for my $i (0..65535)

will create a 65536 element list before iterating $i through it. If
that's the case, why prefer that form over the C style?

Dan