Maybe it is a code smell...

But what I was trying to do is to find the smallest number in a certain range satisfying some condition and then go on using that found value.

Doing it like

my $i;

for $i (1..10) {
  last if &condition($i);
}

&do_more_stuff_with_the_value_found($i);
[download]

Looked (at the time) to be a straightforward solution and I was suprised that it did not work.

This is just for explaining where this comes from (I am not a really good programmer I am afraid...)

And even accepting that this is not the way to do it (there are of course many other ways), it is neverthless surprising that this actually does work:

my $i;

for ($i=1; $i<=10; $i) {
  last if &condition($i);
}

&do_more_stuff_with_the_value_found($i);
[download]

This is to my eyes at least an inconsistency (and thus a wart). But whatever, this is how it was, is and will be...

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