mjd-perl-pm on Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:29:09 -0400


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Re: for my ... 

> I've often used, without problem, the construct
> 
>     for my $foo (@bar) {
>         do_stuff($foo);
>     }
> 
> I once saw a version of perl that wasn't happy with this (5.00x.y, I
> think). I saw another today (5.6).

'for my' was introduced in 5.6.0.  Before that, it was illegal.  If
you got an error message from 5.6.0, it was because of some other
error.

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