Re: an idle question: returning from a nested call

[Austin Hastings]

--- David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, as I sweat here in the salt mines of C++, longing for the
> cleansing joy that Perl(5 or 6, I'd even take 4) is, I find myself
> with the following problem:
> 
> Frequently, I find myself writing stuff like this:
> 
> void Ficp400::SaveRow(long p_row) 
> {
>       // if p_row is marked as deleted, return
>       if (GetStatus(row) & FLX_ROW_DELETE) { return; }
> 
>       ...
> }
> 
> As a general rule, I don't like comments.  When I see a comment, I
> want to turn it into a function name.  So, I keep wanting to be able
> to write the above code like so:
> 
> 
> 
> void Ficp400::SaveRow(long p_row) 
> {
>       Return_If_Is_Deleted(p_row);
> 
>       ...
> }
> 

sub Ficp400::SaveRow(Int $p_row)
{
  return if IsDeleted($p_row);
}