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Postings from May 2001
Larry Wall wrote:
> We do have to worry about the C<next> loop control function though.
> It's possible that in
>
> FOO: while (1) {
> next FOO if /foo/;
> ...
> }
>
> the C<FOO> label is actually being recognized as a pseudo-package
> name! The loop could well be an object whose full name is C<MY::FOO>.
> Or something like that. But maybe that's a gross hack. Seems a bit
> odd to overload C<next> like that. Maybe we need a different word.
Pardon me if someone has already suggested this, but...
Couldn't labels really be (aliases to) iterator objects?
So that
next FOO
really *does* mean
FOO.next
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John Porter
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