There isn't any special case as some may have argued. It is merely the context of <> when it's called. In your for statement, the contents of ARGV are slurped (the list foreach iterates over is built when the loop is constructed...don't believe me? perl -le '$_=4;$_++,print foreach (1..$_)'). Thus $ARGV is set to $ARGV[-1] for the duration of the loop. If you were to change your for statement to the following:

for (;<>;) {
  chomp;
  push(@{$para{$_}}, $ARGV);
}

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It will DWYM and work as expected. Now before anyone with B::Deparse tries to deparse it and notices that it optimizes this loop to while (defined($_ = <>)) ..., if you change the loop to for (my $i=0;<>;$i++) ... it will deparse to a for statement but still DWYM.

Hope this helps.

antirice    
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In reply to Re: while or for? by antirice
in thread while or for? by Skeeve

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