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authorJan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>2010-03-15 23:28:30 -0700
committerJan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>2010-03-15 23:28:30 -0700
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Note that forbidding keywords as labels is controversial
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@@ -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