note moritz <p>First of all <c>for</c> and <c>given</c> are not equivalent, they differ subtly in the scoping of their [doc://$_] variable: <code> use strict; use warnings; use 5.010; $_ = 42; sub f { say } given (23) { f } for (23) { f } __END__ 42 23 </code> <p>So <c>given</c> creates a new lexical $_, while <c>for</c> [doc://local]izes the existing $_, which results in dynamic scoping. <p>But the real reason is that code must be readable to humans, and <c>for</c> has the connotation of a loop, whereas <c>given</c> makes it implicit that it's one value that is talked about. So it's all about intent.</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-616540"> [http://perl6.org/|Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed] </div></div> 988652 988652