"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"Think for yourself!" - Abigail
"Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon
The statement-modifier form of for/foreach doesn't allow you to specify a variable. You're forced to either use $_ or use the regular form with curlies. Sucks, don't it?
"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.