I just viewed the html source and everything looked fine there, try wrapping the whole thing with code tags maybe?

The problem it that in selfcontrol you assign to $_. In the for loop in your calling code $_ has been aliased to 'Operator' and you are trying to assign to that. In effect you are trying to do 'Operator' = 'foo'; which is not allowed.

The actual problem is that $_ is by default global between all subs in all packages (a topic which has been discussed on this site several times). The solution: start subs where you use $_ with local $_; or avoid $_ in non innermost loops (like your workaround did) or in this case use a different switch method such as: 

for ($ref) {
                last unless $_;
                last if /REF/;
                return $self;
}

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Which works because for loops automatically localize $_.
I don't feel like saying more but you might want to look for the nodes which complain about $_, I remember there being at least 2.

In reply to Re: Readonly error on $_ again (better format, mehopes) by repson
in thread Readonly error on $_ again (better format, mehopes) by jeroenes

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