Is “map” a loop?

Question

While answering this question, I came to realize that I was not sure whether Perl\'s map can be considered a loop or not?

On one hand, it quacks/walks l

Answer 1

No, it is not a loop, from my perspective.

Characteristic of (perl) loops is that they can be broken out of (last) or resumed (next, redo). map cannot:

map { last } qw(stack overflow);  # ERROR!  Can't "last" outside a loop block

The error message suggests that perl itself doesn't consider the evaluated block a loop block.