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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Do be do be do.
Message-ID: <11296@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 4 Feb 91 20:06:43 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <$ecGn8-e@cs.psu.edu> flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
: I was annoyed enough about
: 	&foo() while $bar;
: that I'm now using
: 	0, &foo() while $bar;
: which is actually pretty silly.

Mark's workaround was

	+&foo() while $bar;

which doesn't LOOK as silly.

Anyway, like I said, it's fixed in 4.0.  The do-SUBR-while thing predated
the &SUBR syntactic sugar by a fair amount, and it just sort of snuck
past.  Sorry for only having one brain...

I just hope nobody out there has been DEPENDING on it to work that way.

Larry