http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=527577


in reply to Re: when $$s =~ m/\G.../gc is too verbose (for)
in thread when $$s =~ m/\G.../gc is too verbose

This is the trick used by Calc.yp in the Parse::Yapp distribution. It indeed creates an alias but conveys the wrong message because the the block is not really used as a loop.

-- stefp