On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 12:30:10PM -0500, Andy Bach wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Unknown User 
> <knowsuperunkn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > at any point is it possible to say which element i am handling without
> > using a counter?
> 
> 
> Er, well, if it were an array rather than a list
> my @letters = (a .. z);
> foreach my $letter ( a .. z ) {
>    if ( $letter eq $letters[4] ) {
> 
> but that's sort of silly.

And buggy, consider:
    my @timings ( 11, 22, 3, 14, 18, 45, 18, ... 86 );

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