in reply to Re: File::Find exit
in thread File::Find exit

This is a runtime error in Perl 5.6.1 at least. 
perl -e "sub x{last} x"
Can't "last" outside a loop block at -e line 1.

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Update: That was naive. See Bart's followup which corrects/expands this.

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Re: Re: Re: File::Find exit
by bart (Canon) on Oct 29, 2003 at 19:01 UTC
    Eh... not always. 
    #!/perl/bin/perl -wl
sub x { last }
for(1 .. 3) {
    print;
    x();
}
print "done";

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    Result: 
    Exiting subroutine via last at test.pl line 2.
1
done
    Here, it's a warning, not a fatal error.
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