No, that’s not it. I admit I don’t (yet?) understand why that happens exactly, but what happens is that the last causes grep to return the entire list. Observe:

my @candidates = qw( z y a b c a d a e a f );

foreach my $question ( 'a', 'd', 'm' ) {
    my @x = do { {; grep { $_ eq $question ? last : 0 } @candidates } 
+};
    print "$question: @x\n";
}
__END__
a: z y a b c a d a e a f
d: z y a b c a d a e a f
m:

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Update:

<tye> grep works by moving things around on the stack and then reseting the count. you leave early, you get what's on the stack with the original count

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^6: Too much SQL not enough perl by Aristotle
in thread Too much SQL not enough perl by jcpunk

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