Re^2: understanding curly braces surrounding an array

[davido]

Well, since nothing's being done with $_,:

print @alarms;

More "work" might make sense if you're trying to append a newline per iteration or something.

[GrandFather]

Indeed, although that doesn't contrast the Perl for loop constructs with the C construct used by the OP. ;) (And maybe, perhaps, the OP simplified his example code.)