loop surprise

[morgon]

Hi,

can someone explain this behaviour to me:

use strict;

my $i = "whatever";

for $i (1..10) {
  last if $i == 7;
}

print "$i\n"; # prints "whatever"

I had expected that within the loop the previously declared variable would be used and with each iteration it would be assigned a new value, so that after the loop it should have the new value 7.

But that's not how it works.

The loop does not seem to change the value of $i at all - but why?

Many thanks!