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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Do be do be do.
Message-ID: <4796@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 6 Feb 91 11:45:30 GMT
References: <1991Feb4.012916.7944@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> <1991Feb04.015138.28575@convex.com>
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In-reply-to: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)

>>>>> In message <1991Feb04.015138.28575@convex.com>, tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (TC) writes:

TC> It's in the section entitled ``Simple Statements'' in both the man page
TC> and the Camel Book (see the top of page 94).  The essential text follows:

TC>     The loop conditional is evaluation before the expression, except when
TC>     applied to a do-BLOCK or a do_SUBROUTINE command, in which case the
TC>     block executes once before the conditional is evaluated.

As I pointed out before, it is NOT in the man ``page''. The man ``page''
only says that do-BLOCK has the once-at-least semantics, not do-SUBR.
Please change this, Larry.

Btw, in case of discrepancy, shouldn't the man ``page'' be the ultimate ref, as
it is updated more often (presumably). Hmmm... I'm getting tired of writing
"``page''" rather than "page". 
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