On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 08:30:41AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > : INIT, DESTROY, AUTOLOAD, etc., all make sense to me. They really are > : special blocks that normally only occur once in a file. But CATCH and > : NEXT are part of normal syntax. I don't think they're any more "unusual" > : in their flow control than try, while, loop or foreach. > > Yes, they are unusual. They're more like "come froms" than "gotos". > They need to stop people cold from trying to read them as inline code. > People are naturally uncomfortable when they get shouted at, and that's > as it should be.
A little bit of shouting is OK, but it's easy to switch off when you get shouted at all the time. These constructs are likely to be used right throughout a typical Perl program and I don't want to be made to feel uncomfortable *all* the time when I'm trying to concentrate on what the program does. > It is distasteful that a policeman should have to turn on his lights > and siren when he wants to get your attention, but the practice is a > useful bit of society nonetheless. But if he kept doing it all day, every day, it would be police harrassment. :-) A
