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 itself is generally implemented using a loop of some sort (to loop over iterators, typically), but since it is a higher-level structure, it's often not included in lists of lower-level control structures.