Thank you, this is useful!

Two questions.. One on topic and one off topic.

  1. You say.. 
    my $start_with = another_value()
   or ( warn("Could not get another value"), return );

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    Why not.. 
    my $start_with = another_value()
   or warn("Could not get another value"), return;

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    Or even 
    my $start_with = another_value()
   or warn "Could not get another value", return;

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    I tried these out and they seem to work fine. I suppose it's maybe trying to mess with the compiler/interpreter being vague with arguments to warn(), in the last example.

    Are you using parenthesis as good practice/legibility only?

  2. It seems that unless I want to create my own perl distro, there's no way to do as JavaFan suggests ( 779943 ).

    Perl's pretty freaking liberal with what it lets you do with symbol tables, but.. we can't just add another function to the language at compile time.

    I wonder if this is something lisp could do- probably not- this must be on the language design (compiler/interpreter) level, not the coding level (?).
    ( Actually, as Corion noted initially.. 779928 )

In reply to Re^2: how to write a modified return() call? by leocharre
in thread how to write a modified return() call? by leocharre

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