The reason why the goto command is not generally used in perl (and other
languages) is that it does not force the developer to have a theoretical
framework for the program. It creates 'spagetti code' where a person working
on the code or trying to understand what the developer has done has
Does perl have a goto command. For example if you tell scrip to do
something and it returns a 1 then it should go to a block of code that
does something else.
Thanks,
Thomas Browner
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Does perl have a goto command. For example if you tell scrip to do
something and it returns a 1 then it should go to a block of code that
does something else.
Not talking
Thomas Browner wrote:
Does perl have a goto command. For example if you tell scrip to do
something and it returns a 1 then it should go to a block of code that
does something else.
Yes. But I've never seen a case where I think it should be used.
Perl isn't a scripting language. (Although
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Does perl have a goto command. For example if you tell scrip to do
something and it returns a 1 then it should go to a block of code that
does something else
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Does perl have a goto command. For example if you tell scrip to do
something and it returns a 1 then it should go to a block of code that
does something else.
Thanks,
Thomas Browner
