Ok, i get it: "do BLOCK does not count as a loop" pretty much explains it. Thanks for the pointer. My large, heavy Perl books do not make this very clear.
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Try chanting what you want to memorize while bashing your head with them. This method helped me memorize lots of stuff in school... or was that college? (For some reason my memory isn't so good anymore.) ;)