I WISH:
Perl would allow me to use labels indiscriminately in code.

Example: 

#!/usr/blap/perl -w
L000:
L001: use strict;
L002:
L003: print "Hello World!\n";

But of course, "use strict" should complain about them.

This way you could have line numbers. Okay maybe it's silly. It would be another way to comment too. It seems unperlesque to not allow me to throw around as many labels as I want. I don't see a good reason for this behavior. Or is this fixed in the latest version? 

--
-ken rich       "I'm continually AMAZED at
                 th'breathtaking effects of
                 WIND EROSION!!"  (Zippy)

In reply to unused labels should not halt compilation by kechari

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