Whats wrong with using grep in a void context?
The problem is that grep builds a return list, regardless of the context. This means you’re making Perl go to the trouble of building a list that you then just throw away. If the list is large, you waste both time and space. If your intent is to iterate over the list, then use a for loop for this purpose. In perls older than 5.8.1, map suffers from this problem as well. But since 5.8.1, this has been fixed, and map is context aware – in void context, no lists are constructed.
