note Anonymous Monk [doc://goto] says (among other things) <blockquote>Use of "goto-LABEL" or "goto-EXPR" to jump into a construct is deprecated and will issue a warning. Even then, it may not be used to go into any construct that requires initialization, such as a subroutine or a "foreach" loop. It also can't be used to go into a construct that is optimized away.</blockquote> So LABELs are like lexicals, except with only file-scope or subroutine-scope ( [id://213855|Lexical scoping like a fox] ) lexical(my) variables from one loop/block is not visible in another, but labels are , because they currently have file scope (like my $foo at the top of a file outside of any bare blocks) currently <tt> { L: say 1; }</tt> is like <tt> my $L; { $L=1; say $L; } </tt> But this will change, once <c> Use of "goto" to jump into a construct is deprecated </c> is disallowed, labels will be lexically scoped like my $vars someday <tt> { L: say 1; }</tt> is like <tt> { my $L=1; say $L; } </tt> 1013574 1013574 12