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Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> writes:
> I probably missed it, but which bug is being fixed by forbidding to
> modify the iterator in C<< for $iterator (RANGE) >>?
If nothing else, the bug that arises when someone replaces that
C<for> with a C<map> (minimal example):
perl -e 'sub a { print($_++) for 1..3; print $/ } a;a;a'
123
123
123
perl -e 'sub a { map print($_++), 1..3; print $/ } a;a;a'
123
234
345
Eirik
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