which version of perl? I can't seem to reproduce it... Mine is 5.6.1 on a solaris

  me@myhost> perl -MO=Deparse -e 'for( my $x = 0; $x < 10; $x++ ) { pr
+int "foo\n" }'
  for (my $x = 0; $x < 10; ++$x) {
      print "foo\n";
  }
  -e syntax OK
  me@myhost>
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