Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:21:26 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:

>One could argue that do{} should take return so it might have a value,
>but this will definitely annoy the C programmers.

So what.

"Annoying" would be to have a situation that is *less* powerful in Perl
than in C, not *more*.

Oh, and eval BLOCK and do BLOCK and bare statements in a file (not in a
sub) should allow return() too.

-- 
	Bart.

• The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Bart Lateur
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR whileCOND" should go by Damian Conway
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPRwhile COND" should go by Peter Scott
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Piers Cawley
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPRwhile COND" should go by Peter Scott
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPRwhile COND" should go by Nathan Torkington
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Christopher J. Madsen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Jonathan Scott Duff
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Christopher J. Madsen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Jonathan Scott Duff
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Chaim Frenkel
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPRwhile COND" should go by Peter Scott
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPRwhile COND" should go by Nathan Torkington
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Chaim Frenkel
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPRwhile COND" should go by Peter Scott
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPRwhile COND" should go by Christopher J. Madsen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPRwhile COND" should go by Peter Scott
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Bart Lateur
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• do BLOCK as inline sub? (was Re: "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND") by Uri Guttman
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Christopher J. Madsen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Christopher J. Madsen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Chaim Frenkel
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Chaim Frenkel
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPRwhile COND" should go by Peter Scott
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Chaim Frenkel
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Chaim Frenkel
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Tom Christiansen
• Re: The distinction between "do BLOCK while COND" and "EXPR while COND" should go by Chaim Frenkel