On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:47:17 -0700, sono-io wrote: > On Apr 14, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: > >> goto just shouldn't be in your vocabulary. there is no reason for it at >> all in any decent language, especially perl. > > I've been following this thread and I'm just curious. If goto is so > bad, why did they add it to Perl?
Perl's goto is pretty old. Larry was feeling permissive and in a frame of mind to make BASIC programmers happy. He regrets it. The perldoc for goto says he has never found a reason to use it. -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137001274 http://www.oreillyschool.com/courses/perl3/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
