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Re: [ID 19991115.012] Localization and goto()

From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
November 16, 1999 08:19
Subject:
Re: [ID 19991115.012] Localization and goto()
Message ID:
199911161617.JAA08063@jhereg.perl.com
>This is an implementation detail.  IIRC, it is documented that frame
>is replaced, not goes away.  What happens/should-happen with locals
>during "replacement" is debatable.

If something has been replaced, it has gone away and is no longer there.
If I replace your dog with a cat, you would not expect your new feline
to bark; the dog is long gone.  

>What happens, however, is making some "normal programming constructs"
>much harder to implement.

Such as?

--tom



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