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

map is a higher-order function. The same applies to grep. Book Higher-Order Perl explains the idea in full details.

It's sad to see that discussion moved towards implementation details, not the concept.