>From: Tom Christiansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
>>
>> >I find this urge to push exceptions everywhere quite sad.
>>
>> Rather.
>>
>> Languages that have forgotten or dismissed error returns, turning
>> instead to exceptions for everything in an effort to make the code
>> "safer", tend in fact to produce code that is tedious and annoying.
>There seems to be some general consensus that some people would like to be
>able to short-circuit functions like grep. Do you see no need for the code
>block equivalent of C<next>/C<last>/C<redo>?
What, you mean like
Loop controls don't work in an C<if> or C<unless>, either, since
those aren't loops. But you can always introduce an extra set
of braces to give yourself a bare block, which I<does> count
as a loop.
if (/pattern/) {{
last if /alpha/;
last if /beta/;
last if /gamma/;
# do something here only if still in if()
}}
--tom
