Re: Please help critcize and shorten my sub code

[email protected] (Peter Scott)
Newsgroups perl.beginners
Organization Pacific Systems Design Technologies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 11 May 2008 02:05:06 +0200, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> You do not need the label unless you need to jump out of some other 
> loop than the innermost. In this case there are no nested loops so it 
> would probably be better to skip the label.

While I personally program the way you suggest, take note that "Perl Best
Practices" says that loops that are explicitly exited should be labelled
in all cases (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735/toc.html), so
we should not criticize people for following the practice.

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