Why does it become "implicitly local to the loop", hiding the global var's value?
Consider the following code: 
>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $scalar = 42;
 print qq{scalar before subroutine: $scalar};
 S();
 print qq{scalar after subroutine: $scalar};
 sub S {
   for $scalar (1 .. 3) {
     print qq{scalar in subroutine for-loop: $scalar};
     }
   }
"
scalar before subroutine: 42
scalar in subroutine for-loop: 1
scalar in subroutine for-loop: 2
scalar in subroutine for-loop: 3
scalar after subroutine: 42

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In the  for loop in the subroutine, a temporary list is generated and  $scalar is aliased to each element of the list in turn. Then the subroutine exits. What happens to the temporary list upon exit from the subroutine (or probably upon exit from the loop, actually)? To what element of the list should  $scalar remain aliased after exit from the subroutine (or the loop)? The answer to this question seems to be 'None', since the list no longer exists. Hence, implicit loop locality.

In reply to Re^3: Tricky scope problem by AnomalousMonk
in thread Tricky scope problem by Anonymous Monk

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