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foreach (@{$self->{_words}}) {
    foreach my $curr (@{$_->pass_matches}) {
        # ...
    }
}

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Better use foreach instead of for, when you iterate over an array.

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(jeffa) 2Re: Tidying up some dereferencing code
by jeffa (Bishop) on Aug 13, 2002 at 16:32 UTC

    "Better use foreach instead of for, when you iterate over an array."

    Why, they do the exact same thing: 
    print $_ for qw(foo bar baz);
print $_ foreach qw(foo bar baz);

$ perl -MO=Deparse foo.pl
foreach $_ ('foo', 'bar', 'baz') {
    print $_;
}
foreach $_ ('foo', 'bar', 'baz') {
    print $_;
}
foo.pl syntax OK

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    I will admit that i tend to use foreach when i iterate over a 'collection', but never hardly ever (never say never...) when iterating over arrays. As a matter of fact, i have really started to favor for over foreach because foreach is just too wordy. But, consitency is alway king. :)
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