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

[Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni]

Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com>:

> 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.

In normal form (not the postfix one), for() has always wanted the brackets
around the list:

  $ /usr/local/perl/5.4.5/bin/perl -le 'for qw(a b) { print }'
  Missing $ on loop variable at -e line 1.

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Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni

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