Yet another stupid mistake #1
During a refactor of a data from array @foo to hash %foo, I used 'each' to iterate over the hash, but forgot to change the 'for' statement with 'while'. So I ended up with something like:
$ perl -MData::Dump -E'%a=(a=>1, b=>2);
for (my ($k, $v) = each %a) { $_ = "$k x"; dd {k=>$k, v=>$v, "\$_"=>$_} }'
And this is nasty because for(@ary) aliases $_ to each element in @ary, and in this case it modifies $k (quiz #1: and $v too, do you know why?) right under your nose! Thus the result are really messed up:
{ "\$_" => "a x", "k" => "a x", "v" => 1 }
{ "\$_" => "a x x", "k" => "a x", "v" => "a x x" }
Not to mention the loop stops after processing two items (quiz #2: do you know why?) But you might not realize that after you add some pairs to %a and wondering why they don't get processed.
The error message Perl gives is not really helpful, to say the least :)
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1) The reason you are modifying the value in the hash is because each acts like values in that the value is not a copy, but instead the original scalar.
2) It only does the first item because for will execute the expression in parenthesis only once and then iterate over the array of values given. Since each returned two values, the loop will return twice, with $_ the same as $k the first time and $_ the same as $v the second time; but in both runs, $k and $v are the same (and thus you'll end up double-processing the first item).