Re^2: What I Most Recently Learned in Perl, But Should Have Already Known

# $rec is an alias...

It's the previously declared lexical, implicitly localized. See perldoc perlsyn...

Shorter example, without the need to blame AoH for the problem:

my $var = 4;
for $var (1 .. 9) {
    last if $var == 7;
}
print $var;  # prints: 4
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