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On Jul 30, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> First, how about if we disallow only the BEGIN-family of keywords as
> labels?
> Considering the original bug report those are the ones that can cause
> trouble. Writing "for: {}" is weird but why should we stop you,
> really?
I think just disallowing the uppercase keywords would be sufficient.
> Second, how about if any limitations on labels is only if they're to
> blocks?
> There's no possible confusion about the meaning of the label in:
>
> sub foo () {
> CHECK: for (@a) { ... }
> }
>
> so I don't think we need to forbid it.
Yeah, but then it's inconsistent. Sometimes you can use CHECK for a
label and sometimes you can't?
Best,
David
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