There's never a need to use 'while' either, given there's a plethora of other good flow control structures as well. But from that doesn't follow we should shy away from 'while'. Perl gives the programmer a full toolbox, full enough to make almost any tool 'redundant', in the sense that there are enough other tools to not use a particular tool. But we don't use that argument to select some tools, and reject others.

Personally, I use almost every tool* in the toolbox. Some more than others. I don't use goto often, but I do use it. For instance, in code like this: 

    my $max_tries = 10;
GETSTORE:
    my $url = ask_url();
    my $status = getstore($url, $file); 
    goto GETSTORE if $status == 200 && !-s $file && --$max_tries > 0;
    ... do stuff ...
    return $status;

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I find that more attractive than 
    my $max_tries = 10;
    my $status;
    {
        my $url = ask_url();
        $status = getstore($url, $file);
        redo if $status == 200 && !-s $file && --$max_tries > 0;
    }
    .. do stuff ..
    return $status

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*Tools I never use that I can think of right now: formats, 1-arg open, study, and /o.

In reply to Re^2: GOTO or not GOTO by JavaFan
in thread GOTO or not GOTO by jflevi

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