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tye
<blockquote><i>
just that without it, the implementation of lexpads would be much simpler and saner.
</i></blockquote><p>
Yeah, that would have been my best guess. I'm curious about how "much" simplification we are talking about. But I'll go digging in the p5p archives for more details if I find the time and motivation. :)
</p><p>
I wonder if the complications could be avoided by having behavior closer to this pseudo-Perl code:
</p><c>
if( $fatal )
ERR: {
...
}
</c><p>
So that the destination for "goto ERR;" would be the start of the lexical block instead of the first line in the lexical block.
</p><p>
It would be nice if a label pointing to the first line of a lexical block could just be moved to point to the start of the lexical block, avoiding the complexity and the need for deprecation. That is:
</p><c>
if( $fatal ) {
OK:
... no need to deprecate this ...
}
if( $fatal ) {
my $foo;
BAD:
... "goto BAD" from outside this block deprecated ...
}
</c><p>
But, if one ends up using a Perl that has the deprecation but doesn't implement my idea, then it should often be relatively easy to rewrite the code to be more like:
</p><c>
...
if( $whatever ) {
goto ERR;
}
...
if( $fatal ) {
# Used to be "ERR:" here
goto ERR;
}
return ...;
ERR:
... code moved from if( $fatal ) ...
</c>
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