Note that for $i qw(<> >^) { ... } isn't valid Perl syntax. A bug in Perl used to treat it equivalent to for $i (qw(<> >^)) { ... }, but that has been fixed.

>perl -e"for my $i qw( a b ) { }"
syntax error at -e line 1, near "$i qw( a b )"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
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