Re^2: Getting an unknown error

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Arguably, the lack of a warning is a bug here (at the very least).

Note that the dynamic scoping of $1 appears to be a property of the scalar as well. Masking it over will break pretty much anything called from within that loop, but not only—signal handlers break too.

$SIG{ALRM} = sub { "Yes" =~ /.*/; print "$&\n"; }; for $& ("No!") { alarm (1); sleep 2; }

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Re^3: Getting an unknown error by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 27, 2015 at 01:18 UTC
As far as I'm concerned, anything other than `for my $var (LIST)` and `for $_ (LIST)` should be avoided. But it's probably best if enforced by `perlcritic` rather than warnings. Honestly, it's rather obvious that `$1` is special. If you start mucking with special vars, you get what you deserve.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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