[oak perl] my operator question

[Jon Seidel, CMC]

I'm guessing it has something to do with the "for numbers" construct
actually expecting an array context...?

Good question...jon

> Following up on Zed's answer to George's "simple problem,"
>
> why does this work:
>
> my @numbers = qw(1 4 6);
> $total += $_ for @numbers;
> print $total;
>
> but not this:
>
> use strict;
> my @numbers = qw(1 4 6);
> my $total = 0;
> $total += $_ for @numbers;
> print $total;
>
> [Global symbol "$total" requires explicit package name at test line 3.
> Global symbol "$total" requires explicit package name at test line 4.]
>
> and adding "my" this way doesn't work either:
>
> use strict;
> my @numbers = qw(1 4 6);
> my $total += $_ for @numbers;
> print $total;
>
> [it prints nothing]
>
> --Sandy Santra
>
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