It's not clear to me exactly what you're trying to do, but you've sinned against a big no-no:

Do not modify an array in a foreach loop over the same array.

I argued a few years ago on p5p that the prohibition in the manual is excessive, since the behavior is actually fairly simple and reliable. The only real problem with the technique is that, since p5p has declined to guarantee the current simple, reliable behavior, you have to worry that perhaps a future version of Perl will change the behavior.

I tried to get p5p to agree to guarantee the current behavior, but it didn't happen.

In former times there was a similar warning about modifying a hash in the middle of a while (each %hash) loop, even though the hash code had a special case in it to handle that exact use case, since version 5.000. The prohibition in the manual had been added later by someone with more superstition and less understanding of the actual behavior.

A lot of stuff in the manual is like that, warning you that you must throw salt over your shoulder to avoid the wrath of the Moon God, or whatever.

I don't think referring to warnings in the manual as "no-nos" or thinking of them in terms of "sin" is a very effective way to handle this sort of issue. We are supposed to be professional adults, not toddlers, and this is supposed to be an engineering discipline, not some mystical rite. Using the language of superstition can only promote superstitious behavior.