> it is counter-intuitive to me that my $nCond; for $nCond (1 .. 10) and my $nCond; for($nCond=1; $nCond<=10; ++$nCond) would behave differently w/r/t localization of $nCond

So meditate about it a bit more. In the

for $var (1 .. 10)
case, the $var is in a special position, and you can't use anything else than a scalar variable.

The C-style for loop, on the other hand, is just a while loop in a disguise. All the three constructs in the parentheses are just expressions, i.e. you can use multiple variables there, as in

my ($i, $j); my $k = 15; for ($i = 1, $j = 0; $i + $j < $k; $j = ++$i - rand 2) { print "$i $j\n"; }

or you can use no variables at all

#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say }; { my $var; sub init { $var = 0 } sub following { ++$var } sub exhausted { $var > 10 } sub get { $var } } for (init(); ! exhausted(); following()) { say get(); }

So, there can't be any implicit localization, as there's nothing in general to localize.

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord }map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

In reply to Re^5: loop surprise by choroba
in thread loop surprise by morgon

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