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Re^4: why need my in a foreach loop?

by ikegami (Patriarch)
on Nov 28, 2010 at 18:52 UTC ( [id://874131]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: why need my in a foreach loop?
in thread why need my in a foreach loop?

I've already showed when it makes a difference.

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Re^5: why need my in a foreach loop?
by szabgab (Priest) on Dec 08, 2010 at 06:11 UTC
    Oh, apparently I did not read your example in detail. Interesting example. Now I understand how the "my" makes a difference there. Thanks.

    However I'd be interested to know in what case would you really want to write such code?

      Hi Gabor

      >However I'd be interested to know in what case would you really want to write such code?

      As already said my is much younger than foreach and it's consistent and backward compatible.

      While looping over localized globals could also be done with an extra local $packvar=$lex_for_var, the aliasing effect of foreach can't be achieved in any other way in core Perl.

      $\="\n"; our $foo; sub f { $foo++ } my ($a,$b,$c)=(0)x3; for $foo ($a,$b,$c) { f(); # increments $a,$b,$c } print ($a,$b,$c); #: 111 for my $foo ($a,$b,$c) { f(); # nada } print ($a,$b,$c); #: 111 for my $x ($a,$b,$c) { local $foo=$x; f(); # nada } print ($a,$b,$c); #: 111 { my $foo; sub g { $foo++ } for $foo ($a,$b,$c) { g(); # nada (irritatingly) } print ($a,$b,$c); #: 111 }

      For a detailed discussion, see How do closures and variable scope (my,our,local) interact in perl?.

      Cheers Rolf

      UPDATE: expanded code, fixed typos

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