in reply to print and return...

Just use a do{print and return} block vis:

sub test { $arg = shift; do{ print "Did preturn!\n"; return } if $arg; print "Did not print and return!\n"; } test(0); test(1);

You can even do this but you need to watch precedence.

sub test { $arg = shift; print "Did preturn!\n" and return if $arg; print "Did not print and return!\n"; } test(0); test(1);

cheers

tachyon

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