Cool, I have changed my program to exit at the end of the main program code.
Thanks => -----Original Message----- => From: Robert Wohlfarth [mailto:rbwohlfa...@gmail.com] => Sent: 21 July 2010 13:14 => To: Perl Beginners => Subject: Re: Calling Exit from within a subroutine => => On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Mimi Cafe <mimic...@googlemail.com> => wrote: => => > If my program will continue to evaluate the rest of the program, => then is it => > efficient to call exit one time at the end of the program or call => exit as => > the last line of each subroutine to ensure the program ends there? => > => => "Efficient" doesn't offer a lot of benefit at this point in the => program. The => difference is fractions of a microsecond. "Readable" will help you => more in => the long term. => => My personal rule of thumb says that exiting belongs in the main => application. => Ending the application is not integral to the actions "foo" or "bar". => I => assume that from the description - you don't care which subroutine => runs, the => program should exit after any of them. So I would exit from the main => program. Maybe something like this... => => If ($foo){ => my_sub_foo(); => # Is the program going to continue from here once sub foo has => ended and => I have not called exit here or in the sub? => } => elsif ($bar){ => my_sub_bar(); => } => else { => my_other_sub(); => } => exit 0; => => -- => Robert Wohlfarth -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
