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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Do be do be do.
Message-ID: <121266@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 4 Feb 91 03:28:09 GMT
References: <1991Feb4.012916.7944@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> <1991Feb04.015138.28575@convex.com>
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In article <1991Feb04.015138.28575@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>It's in the section entitled ``Simple Statements'' in both the man page
>and the Camel Book (see the top of page 94).  The essential text follows:
>
>    The loop conditional is evaluation before the expression, except when
>    applied to a do-BLOCK or a do_SUBROUTINE command, in which case the
>    block executes once before the conditional is evaluated.

Yeah, but it's not a "do SUBROUTINE", it's a "&SUBROUTINE".
Oh. They're the same thing? I don't think they should be.
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	Root Boy Jim Cottrell <rbj@uunet.uu.net>
	Close the gap of the dark year in between