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in reply to Re: Re: GOTO considered (a necessary) evil?
in thread GOTO considered (a necessary) evil?

But a redo (just like next and last is just a glorified goto.
I consider this statement blatently false and missleading.
  • redo FOO will only work if the label FOO exists at some surrounding loop block

I consider this statement to be inaccurate and not quite pendantic enough for flaming someone! Observe: 

sub bar {
        no warnings 'exiting';
        redo FOO;
}
FOO: {
        print "Hey!";
        bar();
}

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The redo worked and the label did not exist in a surrounding loop block.

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