in reply to Re^7: Unhappy returns
in thread Unhappy returns

by your argument, @x = do { for (1) { 1 } }; should be a syntax error, too, and it isn’t.

Huh? do {} is an expression that evaluates a block. (And like a function call, it too returns the value of the last expression evaluated.) Blocks may contain statements. How is that inconsistent with sauoq’s point?

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^9: Unhappy returns
by ysth (Canon) on Oct 11, 2005 at 04:33 UTC
    Careful, when you say "evaluates a block", you are almost coming right out and stating that a block has a return value :). Which was my point: what could it mean to evaluate a block containing only a for statement? If a for statement doesn't have a return value, it shouldn't even be valid syntax.
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