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| author | Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> | 2010-03-15 23:28:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> | 2010-03-15 23:28:30 -0700 |
| commit | 343c800693b58170657091a89002f2b7e12f91b9 (patch) | |
| tree | 3df929dfd5ea5d575ae217767f38fd08330b71da | |
| parent | ec2eb4bd361a09e57e604554de76134547bd4457 (diff) | |
| download | perl-343c800693b58170657091a89002f2b7e12f91b9.tar.gz | |
Note that forbidding keywords as labels is controversial
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perltodo.pod | 4 |
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diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod index d9d0807762..a16cf0d604 100644 --- a/pod/perltodo.pod +++ b/pod/perltodo.pod @@ -927,7 +927,9 @@ Currently C<goto keyword> "computes" the label value: $ perl -e 'goto print' Can't find label 1 at -e line 1. -It would be nice to forbid labels with keyword names, to avoid confusion. +It is controversial if the right way to avoid the confusion is to forbid +labels with keyword names, or if it would be better to always treat +bareword expressions after a "goto" as a label and never as a keyword. =head2 truncate() prototype |