lol

I just knew that it would be questioned whether I needed the index or not and that is precisely why I added the comment at the last minute before posting the question!!!

I use the reference to make the following code more readable. Here is the relevant code in context. endpoints is just a plain array of program paths, the wheels array is in the same order as endpoints array ( FYI is POEtry ;) ) 
sub endpoint_dead {

    my ($kernel, $heap, $wheel_id) = @_[KERNEL, HEAP, ARG0];

    $kernel->post('MAIN-Logger', 'alert', "Endpoint managed by wheel $
+wheel_id died\n");

    my $self = $heap->{self};

    # find the wheel and restart endpoint
    foreach(0..$#{@{$self->{endpoints}}}){

        my $wheel = $self->{wheels}->[$_];
        my $pname = $self->{endpoints}->[$_];

        if($wheel->ID == $wheel_id){

   [...]

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So, as you can see using the index is more elegant than something like: 
    # find the wheel and restart endpoint
    my $i = 0;
    foreach(@{$self->{endpoints}){

        my $pname = $_;
        my $wheel = $self->{wheels}->[$i];

        [...]

        $i++;
    }

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Or even more elegant than the for construct in the original question.

In reply to Re^2: A question of perlish elegance on array loop by ait
in thread A question of perlish elegance on array loop by ait

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