New(?) for qw(...) error

[Paul LeoNerd Evans]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:10:57 +0100
"Paul Makepeace" <paulm at paulm.com> wrote:

> I've just had one of my dodgier scripts start bailing on this construction,
> 
> $ perl -le 'for $a qw(a b) { print $a }'
> a
> b
> $ perl -le 'for qw(a b) { print }'
> Missing $ on loop variable at -e line 1.
> 
> This is on 5.8.8; not sure when this kicked in.
> 
> P

I can't see a perl where it does work...

# perl -e 'for qw(a b) { print }'
Missing $ on loop variable at -e line 1.


# perl -v

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris-64int
...


# perl -e 'for qw(a b) { print }'
Missing $ on loop variable at -e line 1.

# perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.0 built for sun4-solaris
...


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