A for loop and a foreach loop are slightly different.

No, they are synonyms, and therefore identical.

Adding to the confusion is that for and foreach are synonyms for each other

Yes, they are synonyms, and therefore identical.

for and foreach are synonyms. They are therefore identical. However they are used (interchangeably) to introduce two completely different types of loop, the "C-style for loop":

  LABEL for (EXPR; EXPR; EXPR) BLOCK

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and another one for which I know no convenient name (the "list-style for loop"?):
  LABEL for VAR (LIST) BLOCK

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It is unfortunate that the presentation of these two loop styles in perlsyn implies that the keyword for the first is "for" and for the second is "foreach", since that isn't true: the two are synonyms, hence interchangeable.

Hope this helps. :)

(no pun intended).

None implied.

Hugo

In reply to Re^4: Closures & aliases by hv
in thread Closures & aliases by BrowserUk

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