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in thread How does 'goto LABEL' search for its label?

> > I think in this context it's supposed to mean "block of a loop".

> goto says that literally

Really? Where?

And I hate the fact that it uses the term "construct" in two different meanings!!!

I'd really love to have the $cash to hire a crowd of math students to look thru the perldocs to clean up the wording.

Cheers Rolf

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Re^4: How does 'goto LABEL' search for its label?
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 16, 2013 at 18:14 UTC
    :) In the docs, in goto, in the part i quoted, the part in bold, the part that says: any construct that requires initialization, such as a subroutine or a foreach loop.
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      Constructs that require initialization such as a subroutine or a foreach loop can't be deprecated now because they never worked.

      Moritz showed a jump into a "construct" (an if block) w/o deprecation warning.

      So which blocks or "pieces of syntax made up of smaller pieces" exactly do belong to that set of now deprecated "constructs" is not defined within the perldocs.

      I hope you are aware that many kinds of loops are not foreach -loops.

      Cheers Rolf

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        Moritz showed a jump into a "construct" (an if block) w/o deprecation warning.

        Its is optimized away , optimization before warning -- it is still deprecated

        So which blocks

        all of them -- if some aren't, its a warnings bug (maybe), not something that was forgotten to be deprecated

        I hope you are aware that many kinds of loops are not foreach -loops.

        Anything with a { bare block } is a loop and is deprecated 

        perl -wE " { L1: say 1; } goto L1; "

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