Damian Conway writes:
: Graham Barr wrote:
:
: > If a POST is inside a loop, is it executed at the end of each
: > iteration or only when the loop exits ?
:
: Only on final exit.
:
: > If it is only when the loop exits, will it be possible to designate
: > a block to be multiple (eg both POST and NEXT)
:
: One way to do that would be to define POST and NEXT to return their own
: (single, closure) argument. So then you could write:
:
: NEXT POST { ... }
As long as everyone realizes that that return happens at compile time...
This is only slightly less problematic than
NEXT $coderef;
which in turn is only slightly less problematic than
if $condition $coderef;
Ick.
Larry
