... why print for "1" .. "-1"; doesn't output the numbers 1 through to 99. ... (I'm running perl-5.28.0 on Windows.)

And likewise 5.8 on Win7. And likewise puzzled.

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le
"print qq{perl version: $]};
 ;;
 my $h = { args => [ '1' .. '-1' ] };
 dd $h;
 ;;
 print for '1' .. '-1';
"
perl version: 5.008009
{ args => [] }
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