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RE: RE: RE: RE: Number of times I've used goto in Perl

by btrott (Parson)
on Apr 19, 2000 at 02:11 UTC ( [id://7977]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to RE: RE: RE: Number of times I've used goto in Perl
in thread Number of times I've used goto in Perl

Point taken. :)

But in the case of Carp, my Carp.pm uses goto in the same magical way that it's used in AUTOLOAD:

goto &longmess;
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:

goto - create spaghetti code

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RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Number of times I've used goto in Perl
by turnstep (Parson) on Apr 19, 2000 at 02:51 UTC
    OK, I'll let Carp slide as well. :) (Is this thread nested enough yet?)

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