note Abigail-II <code>last</code>, <code>next</code> and <code>redo</code> can take a label as well. And then you will have the same problems if you now point out with <code>goto</code>. <p> Yet, <code>next</code> and friends having an optional label is seen as a feature, not a misfeature. It might very well be that the author of Perl had used the <code>goto LABEL</code> if he had not added optional labels to <code>next</code>, <code>last</code> and <code>redo</code>. <p> Abigail 181789 181834