Re: How to exit subroutine and go to Beginning of CGI Script?

One method is to make the "main" part of your code into a subroutine itself such that to start at the beginning again, you simply call that routine. I find your request quite bizarre though. Why would you want to do this?

duff

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Re: Re: How to exit subroutine and go to Beginning of CGI Script? by calin (Deacon) on Dec 19, 2003 at 19:27 UTC
One method is to make the "main" part of your code into a subroutine itself such that to start at the beginning again, you simply call that routine. This will lead to memory exhaustion under some circumstances. Question: is tail-recursion possible in Perl?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: How to exit subroutine and go to Beginning of CGI Script? by duff (Parson) on Dec 19, 2003 at 19:42 UTC
It could lead to memory exhaustion. But then there's always `goto &main;` (or more likely `@_=(); goto &main;`). This form of goto isn't quite as evil as `goto LABEL` or `goto EXPR`. duff P.S. Of course tail-recursion is possible, though not always desirable :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]