That's a good piece of rather in-depth discussion ;). And this is the first time that I understood the subtle workings of the range operator. It's really a 'flip-flop' kind of an operator. Here's the way I'd use it:
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#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# TEST for '..' (and '...') operators
#
# Description of the range operator is found
# at the END of this file.
#

print "TEST 1: Skipping perldoc comments.\n----------------\n";

while (<DATA>) {
    next if (/^=head/ .. /^=cut/);
    print $_;
}


__DATA__

# pretend this is a config file
var = 0;
var1 = 0;

=head
this should be skipped by
the /^=head/ .. /^=cut/ range
operator.

some paragraph here
some paragraph here
=cut

var2 = 0;

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Your example with data is also very neat one. I guess one could use the range operator with special objects that serve as data iterators (say, list iterators etc.)

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In reply to Re: Loops, the scalar range operator, and objects by vladb
in thread Loops, the scalar range operator, and objects by mstone

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