Looking over some code I saw 
  my $text;
  for $text(@array){
     $hash->{$text}++}

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"That won't work," I thought. "It should be:" 
  my $text;
  foreach $text(@array){
     $hash->{$text}++}

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But investigation showed that it worked fine. Further, 
my @foo = qw(bar baz ne);
foreach (my $ix=0;$ix < @foo; $ix++){print $foo[$ix]}

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printed out barbazne.

So it looks like for and foreach will accept each others' formats. Are they in fact equivalent? Or is code that exploits this vulnerable to subtle bugs?

thanks
throop

In reply to Risks of equivalence between FOR and FOREACH by throop

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