Re^3: Hard syntax error or disambiguable parsing?

[rovf]

for $i ( 0 .. 5 ) is not a foreach loop

May I ask you in what way

for $i ( 0 .. 5 )

and

foreach $i ( 0 .. 5 )

differ, according to your opinion? perlsyn says The "foreach" keyword is actually a synonym for the "for" keyword, so I don't see how you came to the idea that the for loop your mention, would not be a foreach loop. Did I miss something here?

[ikegami]

Did I miss something here?

You probably think the ".." in "for[each] $i ( 0 .. 5 )" is the range operator and that it creates a list of 6 elements. It's not, and no list of 6 elements is created.

perlsyn distinguishes between For Loops ("C"-style For Loops) and Foreach Loops (List Iteration Loops), but "for[each] $i ( 0 .. 5 )" is neither. It's actually a Counting Loop like FOR ... NEXT in BASIC.