Re: [Parseperl-discuss] How should "for qw<blah> {}" parse?

[Elliot S. <pe...@ga...>]

Chris Dolan wrote:
> Elliot,
> Are you sure that's valid syntax?  I don't think it's legal to omit the 
> parens.

Perfectly valid.

Guy at work was running into a RequireFinalReturn violation because he used that form, even though he had a perfectly good return statement.

Well, not strictly so.  The form in the subject results in a "Missing $ on loop variable".  However, if you declare the loop variable like so:

perl -e 'foreach my $blah qw<blah blah> { print "$blah\n" }'

it works.  No parens anywhere.

Try it.