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From: ejk@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Kubaitis - CSO )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: next if C VS if(C) { next }
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Date: 22 May 91 11:32:55 GMT
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You're probably after a detailed explanation, but "Programming Perl" (p 362)
advises:

  o Use modifiers and equivalent && and ||, instead of full-blown conditionals.

    Statement modifiers avoid the overhead of entering and leaving a
    block.... The logical operators are translated internally to the
    equivalent statement modifiers whenever possible.

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Ed Kubaitis (ejk@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu)
Computing Services Office - University of Illinois, Urbana