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authorRobin Houston <robin@cpan.org>1998-02-24 11:15:57 +0000
committerMalcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>1998-02-25 15:28:08 +0000
commitb150fb22188cba2cc0808878ec299d4f0e8c70ea (patch)
treea87afff175ea5156e2cdc208e8cf4fe694e96f18 /pod/perldiag.pod
parent0fa190096f28eaa3c2a08a9aa7c333cd24617fd7 (diff)
downloadperl-b150fb22188cba2cc0808878ec299d4f0e8c70ea.tar.gz
Re: [PATCH 5.004_60] Fix goto-in-eval segfault (unwrapped!)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@582
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@@ -638,6 +638,11 @@ call for another. It can't manufacture one out of whole cloth. In general
you should be calling it out of only an AUTOLOAD routine anyway. See
L<perlfunc/goto>.
+=item Can't goto subroutine from an eval-string
+
+(F) The "goto subroutine" call can't be used to jump out of an eval "string".
+(You can use it to jump out of an eval {BLOCK}, but you probably don't want to.)
+
=item Can't localize through a reference
(F) You said something like C<local $$ref>, which Perl can't currently