doesn't work with implied variable usage (RT 60018)

[jkeenan]

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Original Ticket Information

• RT #: 60018
• URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60018
• Requestor: xenoterracide (at) gmail (dot) com
• Date: Aug 02 2010

Original Text

I'm using this via Dist-Zilla-Plugin-UnusedVarsTests. Which complains about an unused my $_; however $_ is not unused it's just that all instances of it in the subroutine are implied.

sub something {
    my $_;
    my @array = ...;
    while ( @array ) {
        say;
    }
}

UnusedVarsTests would fail in this case even though technically $_ is being used on say.

Follow-Up Report

oh some further discussion I had on StackOverflow