On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:31 PM, John M. Dlugosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Consider the words that may be used to introduce a block for a special > purpose, like > > BEGIN > END > INIT > CATCH > etc. > > What do you call those? They are not even "special named blocks" because > that is not the block name (that already means something). > syntactically speaking, http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/src/perl6/STD.pm groups them in <statement_control>, just like 'if' and 'for'. semantically speaking, i don't have a clever or unique name for them, other than what larry has already come up with.
~jerry
