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Author: larry Date: Mon Aug 14 18:38:44 2006 New Revision: 10944 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Log: Constrained FIRST, NEXT, and LAST to work only at top level of loop block. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Mon Aug 14 18:38:44 2006 @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Maintainer: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> Date: 19 Aug 2004 - Last Modified: 11 Aug 2006 + Last Modified: 14 Aug 2006 Number: 4 - Version: 33 + Version: 34 This document summarizes Apocalypse 4, which covers the block and statement syntax of Perl. @@ -699,6 +699,9 @@ of C<LEAVE>, and for execution order are treated as part of the queue of C<LEAVE> blocks. +C<FIRST>, C<NEXT>, and C<LAST> are meaningful only within the lexical scope +of a loop, and may occur only at the top level of such a loop block. + [Note: the name C<FIRST> used to be associated with C<state> declarations. Now it is associated only with loops. See the C<START> above for C<state> semantics.]