I use redo a lot for loops with multiple steps, often involving database work that must be atomic, tied with failure-prone XMLRPC or http requests.... such as... 
while (my $loop = shift) {
 $db->rollback;
 $db->begin_transaction;

 my ($fail1, $fail2, $fail3);

 $fail1 = eval {
  # do something complicated to $loop;
 }

 $fail2 = eval {
  # do something more to $loop;
 }
 
 $fail3 = eval {
  # do something more to $loop;
 }

 unless ($fail1 && $fail2 && $fail3) {
  $db->rollback;
  redo;
 }
 $db->commit;
}

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20040826 Edit by ysth: add code tags

In reply to Re: Useful uses of redo? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Useful uses of redo? by kvale

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