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From: raymond@sunkist.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
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Subject: Re: "MOST COMMON NOVICE BUG" contest
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Date: 26 Mar 90 16:20:37 GMT
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My vote goes to converting

	while (condition) {
	    ....
	    next if condition;
	    ....
	}

into

	do {
	    ....
	    next if condition;
	    ....
	} while (condition);

According to The Great Larry (Book 3, Chapter 6, Verses 10 and 11.)

	(... Note also that the loop control commands described later will
	NOT work in this construct, since modifiers don't take loop
	labels.  Sorry.)

Not as sorry as we are for missing that parenthetical...

$_='x"Not ";"x\"another \";\'x\\"perl \\";x\\"hacker,\\"\'"';s/x/print/g;eval eval eval;
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