Re^2: For vs. Foreach

Peeking in toke.c suggests there is one difference between 'for' and 'foreach'. It seems it's valid to use 'for' somewhere in an attribute declaration. The documentation about attribute doesn't make it clear to me how. Best thing I can do is generating different error message when using 'for' or 'foreach':

$ perl -wE 'sub foo: foreach'
Invalid CODE attribute: foreach at -e line 1
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
$ perl -wE 'sub foo: for'
syntax error at -e line 1, next token ???
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
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Using 'for' is a compile time error, using 'foreach' a run time error (resulting in abortion of the compilation).

If someone could show how to use 'for' inside an attribute, that would be dandy.

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Re^3: For vs. Foreach by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 13, 2009 at 19:49 UTC
You're right! `use Attribute::Handlers; sub foreach :ATTR { print "Just another Perl hacker,\n"; } sub foo :foreach {} foo();` [download] prints the expected, while `use Attribute::Handlers; sub for :ATTR { print "Just another Perl hacker,\n"; } sub foo :for {} foo();` [download] does not. I'll follow my own advice and send a perlbug.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: For vs. Foreach
by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 13, 2009 at 19:49 UTC

use Attribute::Handlers;

sub foreach :ATTR {
  print "Just another Perl hacker,\n";
}

sub foo :foreach {}

foo();
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use Attribute::Handlers;
sub for :ATTR {
  print "Just another Perl hacker,\n";
}
sub foo :for {}
foo();
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