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Re: Inconsistent for the sake of convenience

by Narveson (Chaplain)
on Feb 17, 2009 at 15:38 UTC ( [id://744455]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Inconsistent for the sake of convenience

The while statement modifier works differently with do than with other statements.

print "This doesn't print.\n"        while 2 + 2 == 5;
do {print "But this prints once.\n"} while 2 + 2 == 5;

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