-=| jidanni at jidanni.org, 11.08.2013 12:58:37 +0800 |=-
> Package: perl-doc
> Version: 5.14.2-21
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> File: /usr/share/man/man1/perlsyn.1.gz
>
> perlsyn says
>
> For Loops
> Perl's C-style "for" loop works like the corresponding "while" loop;
> that means that this:
>
> for ($i = 1; $i < 10; $i++) { #BUT HOW DOES ONE USE my HERE the reader wonders
> ...
> }
>
> is the same as this:
>
> $i = 1;
> while ($i < 10) {
> ...
> } continue {
> $i++;
> }
>
> There is one minor difference: if variables are declared with "my" in
> the initialization section of the "for", the lexical scope of those
> variables is exactly the "for" loop (the body of the loop and the
The answer is right there. «in the initialization section of the
"for"».