In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randy W. Sims) writes:
>One example of a legitimate use of goto from perlsub:
>
> Many "AUTOLOAD" routines load in a definition for the
> requested subroutine using eval(), then execute that sub-
> routine using a special form of goto() that erases the
> stack frame of the "AUTOLOAD" routine without a trace.
That is not the same kind of goto any more than exec {} is the
same as exec "". That form of goto is expressed as
"goto &subroutine" and I frequently use it. I've not used
a goto LABEL construct since I was writing BASIC programs
20 years ago (unless you count assembler, which you shouldn't).
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