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Re: [PATCH, maybe, 5.00561 DOC] Re: eval/last/die discrepency/bug

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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
October 4, 1999 08:04
Subject:
Re: [PATCH, maybe, 5.00561 DOC] Re: eval/last/die discrepency/bug
Message ID:
199910041504.JAA12530@jhereg.perl.com
My goodness, I missed this.

>Since it is impossible to document this mess, in the "sane" mode (use
>sane or whatever) the targetless "control-jumps" should be prohibited
>in the cases which cause so much confusion.

You mean INSANE mode.  You can't break this; to do so would be
unconscionable and irresponsible.  Just because you don't like how control
jumps affect on basic blocks is irrelevant to how Perl works.  And stop
pretending nobody understands it.  That is insulting and mendacious.

--tom

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