in reply to Re^4: at continue, last
in thread at continue, last

> In particular, I'm trying to avoid the nested if/else/unless clauses.

As I already explained you have always the same exit point. where the decrement can safely happen.

May it be last or goto LABEL , you have plenty of possibilities to reach it, w/o nesting if clauses.

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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Re^6: at continue, last
by djerius (Beadle) on Jun 06, 2014 at 18:43 UTC
    I believe we're in agreement. Thanks.