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This is the trick used by Calc.yp in the Parse::Yapp distribution. It indeed creates an alias but conveys the wrong message because the the block is not really used as a loop.

-- stefp

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Re^3: when $$s =~ m/\G.../gc is too verbose (for)
by bart (Canon) on Feb 03, 2006 at 11:15 UTC
    That's why I wished Perl allowed another keyword as yet another synonym for for/foreach — I'd propose "with", for example: 
    with($$s) {
    ...
}

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    But in the meantime, I've trained myself to actually read/see 
    for(SCALAR) { ... }

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    as 
    with(SCALAR) { ... }

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    Chalk it up as another Perl idiom.

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      It's called "given" in Perl 6 (or in Perl6::Switch, if you want to play with 6ish topicalizers in Perl 5).

      Perl 6 also has syntactic relief for the m/\G.../gc monstrosity as well. That turns into m:p/.../, where the :p tells it to start matching at the current position. (But generally you don't even need that since subrules in a grammar always anchor to the current position anyway.)

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Re^3: when $$s =~ m/\G.../gc is too verbose (for)
by tye (Sage) on Feb 03, 2006 at 19:45 UTC

    Much like in English, you can use Perl's for() for iterating over a list, iterating via initialization + check + step, or associating a single topic with a block of syntax. So I, without apology, use for() for topicalizing. For you, I won't stop doing this. (: Excuse me for not demonstrating the use of English "for" analogous to init + check + step.

    - tye        

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