[ABE.pm] 'for' statement Q

[Ricardo SIGNES]

* Walt Mankowski <waltman at pobox.com> [2008-08-15T13:29:57]
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:19:09PM -0400, Faber J. Fedor wrote:
> > But it turns out to work just like a foreach, IOW, it iterates over the
> > list and $_ is assigned $c then $m then $y.
> 
> That's because "foreach" and "for" are equivalent.

which means you can also:

  for (my $i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {
    say $i;
  }

You *can't* however say:

  say $i for (my $i = 0; $i < 10; $i++);

for various reasons, including the nature of lexical scope and assignment.
That and I think the parser barfs.

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rjbs