Thanks, I'll try the new version.

And I don't think you're missing anything... hope I didn't make you spin too many cycles on that.

As I said it was a curiosity: A way to give $_ a 'pretty name' in a for or while loop. You're saying it's already the same to do:

for $line (<DATA>) {}
# or
for alias $line (<DATA>) {}
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Ok. /shrug. I naively saw the named subroutine arguments as roughly the same thing. I am enlightened. =)