in reply to Re^2: when $$s =~ m/\G.../gc is too verbose (for)
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That's why I wished Perl allowed another keyword as yet another synonym for for/foreach — I'd propose "with", for example: 
with($$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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Re^4: when $$s =~ m/\G.../gc is too verbose (for)
by TimToady (Parson) on Feb 03, 2006 at 19:10 UTC
    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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