What would you say? Is this an acceptable (even idiomatic use of "last") or just a hack that should be avoided?

Its goto which has a strong connection to spaghetti code

So sure this "feature" is http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn.html#Basic-BLOCKs but lots will find it fishy

How does 'goto LABEL' search for its label?, Re^3: Re Execute Lines of Code ("loops"), How does next label work?, An exploration of higher-level-language approaches to the "First all-zero row in an NxN matrix" problem (goto Considered Harmful), Why I Hate Nested If-Else blocks

Perl::Critic::Policy::ControlStructures::ProhibitCascadingIfElse - Don't write long "if-elsif-elsif-elsif-elsif...else" chains.]

see source of Regexp::Grammars search for elsif

So there you have it, all kinds of opinions, all equally optional :)

In reply to Re: use of last ( is goto, bare blocks aren't loops) by Anonymous Monk
in thread use of last by morgon

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