Named Blocks (Was Re: Oh noooooo!!)
Randal Schwartz
merlyn at iwarp.intel.com
Sat Sep 9 14:06:33 AEST 1989
In article <475 at thirdi.UUCP>, peter at thirdi (Peter Rowell) writes:
| One thing I would have loved to have seen introduced by ANSI would have
| been "named blocks", but I am sure that parsing them is a bitch.
| Borrowing heavily from SAIL, a named block could be defined as one that
| has a string constant immediately following the opening curly brace.
Perl has 'em.
LINE: while ($_ = <stdin>) { # read a line into variable $_
...;
while ($something_needs_to_be_done) {
...;
...;
next LINE if time > $quitting_time;
# jump out to the outer loop
...;
}
...;
}
Works pretty well.
Just another Perl hacker,
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