I'm the complete opposite. I can't remember the last time that I used for. It always seems to me that for iteraring over a list, the foreach syntax is more natural. I find
foreach (@array) {
# do someting with $_
}
far easier to follow than
for ($i = 0; $i < @array; ++$i) {
# do something with $array[$i]
}
If, for some reason you need the array index for some calculation, then you can use
foreach $i (0 .. $#array) {
# do something with $array[$i]
}
Of course, if you're really keen on saving keystrokes you can always spell foreach as for.
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