in reply to 'block' idiom needed

You've just asked for 'return', haven't you?

sub block {
   my $setting = 0;
   {
      return $setting = 1;
   }
}

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Re^2: 'block' idiom needed
by nmerriweather (Friar) on Jan 07, 2007 at 00:29 UTC
    no, return will exit the sub. i just wanted to exit the braces.
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      Well yes... but then you just said return $setting outside of the braces. It'd be better for locality to not escape the braces just to get to the return and instead just do the return directly.

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        ah. sorry for the confusion.

        This is a VASTLY simplified section of code. in practice its more like: 
        sub configure {
   my $setting_a= undef;
   my $setting_b= undef;
   {
     run a bunch of things setting combinations of a or b , last
  }
  do someting with settings a and b
}

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        there are too many sub vars needed in the block to have that stuff in a seperate sub without passing tons of args around -- so i wanted to localize them in a breakable block
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