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RE: RE: RE: RE: Number of times I've used goto in Perlby btrott (Parson) |
on Apr 19, 2000 at 02:11 UTC ( [id://7977]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Point taken. :) But in the case of Carp, my Carp.pm uses goto in the same magical way that it's used in AUTOLOAD: The purpose being that this magical goto erases the calling function from the call stack, which is exactly why it's used here: since longmess dumps out a stack trace, we don't want shortmess showing up in the call stack. So you should let Carp.pm slide, too. :) BTW, I like the perlfunc entry for goto:
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