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Fair observation.
Other syntax would work - pehaps "reset [label]" ?
Surely an arrayref is currently a nonsensical argument to reset...which
is what this would look like to current Perl. To make it easy to
parse, we could even say reset ['label'] - so no special handling in
the []s.
I'm not a Perl internals person, so certainly other ideas will come to
more internals-savvy folks.
I'm just hoping that some variant of this will take someone's fancy who
can implement it and remove this long-standing restriction in the
language.
On Mon Dec 10 07:51:43 2012, davem wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 03:56:33AM -0800, via RT wrote:
> > Since we can label any statement (now), why not have the reset
> operator take a label argument?
> > Then reset can act on the toggle(s) in that statement.
> >
> > So the minimum implemention would permit:
> > sub extract {
> > my $out = '';
> > reset TOGGLE;
>
> but C<reset TOGGLE> currently means the same as C<reset "TOGGLE">
> (which means the same as C<reset "EGLOT">).
>
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