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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: Weird response of "next" inside sub?
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Date: 6 Mar 91 21:40:41 GMT
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From the keyboard of rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim):
: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.

Boo.  Hiss.  This is too easy to screw up, and not flexible
enough for exception handling.  That's what eval/die give you.

--tom
--
	I get so tired of utilities with arbitrary, undocumented,
	compiled-in limits.  Don't you?

Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist