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| author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2005-07-28 17:34:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2005-07-28 17:34:36 +0000 |
| commit | 6b275a1faab554e85a79bafae9c99ec0d6ed3d18 (patch) | |
| tree | cb1dd78043fba50b0c364646da56ed3add2d4061 /pod | |
| parent | ea1bde1698e6ad6e5f9da28bfbefc2987ec7abcc (diff) | |
| download | perl-6b275a1faab554e85a79bafae9c99ec0d6ed3d18.tar.gz | |
Clarification to the syntax of loop modifiers
by Piotr Fusik
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@25241
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 3fd0032597..0bbd489750 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -1229,9 +1229,10 @@ behavior may be fixed in a future release. =item do BLOCK Not really a function. Returns the value of the last command in the -sequence of commands indicated by BLOCK. When modified by a loop -modifier, executes the BLOCK once before testing the loop condition. -(On other statements the loop modifiers test the conditional first.) +sequence of commands indicated by BLOCK. When modified by the C<while> or +C<until> loop modifier, executes the BLOCK once before testing the loop +condition. (On other statements the loop modifiers test the conditional +first.) C<do BLOCK> does I<not> count as a loop, so the loop control statements C<next>, C<last>, or C<redo> cannot be used to leave or restart the block. |