Greetings ye who may help me (and merely a hello to those who may not)
I've been fiddeling around with a program and got it down to roughly 
if ( not $error )
 {
   while ($a < $b)
    { $a++; }
 }

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I was thinking, that if looks kinda nasty, so I went for 
while ($a < $b) if not $error
 { $a++; }

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As I find that to look much better, but I get the following error message telling me that this does not work.
syntax error at testcondition.pl line 62, near ") if" Global symbol "%error" requires explicit package name at proxy.pl line 63. syntax error at testcondition.pl line 69, near "}"
So, am I stuck with that rather ugly looking set of lines or is there a more beautiful replacement than 
if ( not $error ) { while ($a < $b)
            { $a++; }}

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jcpunk
all code is tested, and doesn't work so there :p (varient on common PM sig for my own ammusment)

In reply to backwards if and while looping by jcpunk

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