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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Weird response of "next" inside sub?
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.230002.27271@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 11 Mar 91 23:00:02 GMT
References: <1991Mar6.172554.14299@iwarp.intel.com> <222@munz.UUCP> <1991Mar09.200039.1484@convex.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1991Mar09.200039.1484@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
: one answer is that next takes a label as an operand, not a scalar.
: as for why this should be so, i dunno -- ask larry. :-)

If I allowed "next $label" then I'd also have to allow "goto $label", and
I don't think you really want that...  :-)

Besides, you can always say

	eval "next $label";

:-)

Larry