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From:

Abigail

Date:

June 25, 2008 09:37

Subject:

Re: [perl #56150] return return

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20080625140222.GC8495@almanda

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:04:27AM -0700, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 
> $ ./perl -Ilib -e 'sub foo {return return}'
> $
> 
> How come this isn't a syntax error? It can't possibly do anything useful.
> (Actually, it seems that anything can be passed the return value of return.
> C<print return> works just fine).


Well, some people think that always using a 'return' makes code 
easier to understand. Clearly, 'return return' makes it even easier.


Abigail

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