Re^2: iterative foreach loop

[hippo]

for my $newline (@lines) {
    printf $newline; # print the contents of the filled array
}

This seems confusingly verbose to me. Why not simply

print @lines;

There's no need for printf, for an explicit loop or for a lexical scalar. TIMTOWTDI, but there is clarity in simplicity.

[zarath]

Good points, thanks for that!

I think I picked up some bad habits by learning Perl mainly from some old scripts I've come across at work.

Starting to think the guy who wrote them shouldn't have...