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Aristotle Pagaltzis

Date:

June 20, 2008 09:06

Subject:

Re: [perl #56150] return return

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20080620160556.GW25433@klangraum.plasmasturm.org

* Nicholas Clark <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2008-06-20 18:00]:
> $ ./perl -Ilib -e 'sub foo {return return}'
> $
> 
> How come this isn't a syntax error?

Because `return` is a function, not a statement, presumably so
you can write the following?

    sub process_file {
        # ...
        open my $fh, '<', $fn or return;
        # ...
    }

-- 
*AUTOLOAD=*_;sub _{s/(.*)::(.*)/print$2,(",$\/"," ")[defined wantarray]/e;$1}
&Just->another->Perl->hack;
#Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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