zen% cat t0 #!/usr/bin/perl -w for (my $i = 0; $i < 2; $i++) { my $j = $i + 1; retry: warn "i: $i j: $j\n"; if ($i < $j) { $j--; goto retry; } } zen% /opt/perl-5.8.0/bin/perl t0 i: 0 j: 1 i: 0 j: 0 i: 1 j: 2 Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at t0 line 4. i: 1 j: Use of uninitialized value in numeric lt (<) at t0 line 6. Segmentation fault (core dumped) zen% /opt/perl-5.8.1/bin/perl t0 i: 0 j: 1 i: 0 j: 0 i: 1 j: 2 i: 1 j: 1 zen%