Re^2: Number of times I've used goto in Perl

[JavaFan]

In the case of long running daemons, I prefer to write that as:

exec $0, @ARGV if $loop && sleep ($time || 300);

Of course, that assumes you aren't collecting stats over multiple loops.

The advantage of using exec instead of a goto (or loop), is that if there's a memory leak somewhere (be it in your script, a module or library you use, or a in perl itself), it will accumulate with a loop, but not with an exec.