in reply to Re^2: why need my in a foreach loop?
in thread why need my in a foreach loop?

It is not the "my" that defines the scope of this variable so IMHO it is there only to satisfy "use strict".

I can't think of any other cases in which Perl 5 automatically lexicalizes a named variable without my; I think it's a (useful) consistency.

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