After further thought, and a little caffeine, I have to confess that I'm not sure I understand the difference in this case. Doesn't the following example show that for does iterate over the array elements? 
my @array= (1,2,3,4);
for my $item (@array) {
    pop @array;
    printf "Item: %s Array: %s\n",$item,join(', ', @array);
}

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Output: 
Item: 1 Array: 1, 2, 3
Item: 2 Array: 1, 2

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If for was iterating over a list that would imply that it wa s divorced from the @array object, and that modifying the @array object would not affect the loop - no?

In reply to Re^2: RFC - FAQ for Modification of a read-only value attempted by imp
in thread RFC - FAQ for Modification of a read-only value attempted by imp

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