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

[Rafael Garcia-Suarez]

On 28/03/07, McGlinchy, Alistair
<Alistair.McGlinchy at marks-and-spencer.com> wrote:
> While verifing this little meme, I found this extra piece of magical $_
> fun.  Shouldn't these all print the same thing?

Certainly they should. Apparently, for some reason, in the 2nd case
the parser is confused and think that "print" is a literal string (as
in an hashref). Adding a semicolon after print solves it. Not sure how
to fix that.

> %  perl -le 'for $_  (qw(a b)) { print    }'
> a
> b
> %  perl -le 'for $_   qw(a b)  { print    }'
> %
> %  perl -le 'for $_   qw(a b)  { print $_ }'
> a
> b