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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Weird response of "next" inside sub?
Message-ID: <124820@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 6 Mar 91 21:17:35 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.172554.14299@iwarp.intel.com>
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In article <1991Mar6.172554.14299@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>Watch this:
>
>Yow!  The next exits the sub and cycles the outer "for" loop!  (This
>bit me in a program today.)

I say leave it in. This is like catch/throw or setjmp/longjmp.
As long as the subroutines are cleaned up ok, I'm all for it.
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