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Note that for (;$i<5007;$i++) is also valid.

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While this is considered "very un-Perl-ish", it is very common in C/C++ and even C# (though both C++ and C# also have for-each syntax, as well). Therefore, there are many developers who are more comfortable with this form.

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Re^3: Useless use of private variable in void context at by GrandFather (Saint) on Nov 24, 2014 at 20:21 UTC
Also needlessly obscure and error prone compared to a Perl loop (`for (1 .. 5007) {...}`) used for performing some number of iterations of a loop. Perl is the programming world's equivalent of English	[reply] [d/l]

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