Re: [FWP] awww, no fun :(

[Rick Delaney <rick.delaney@home.com>]

Jeff Pinyan wrote:
> 
> On Apr 12, Michael G Schwern said:
> 
> >  perl -wle 'sub foo { last; } while(1) { foo() }'
> >
> >In any sane universe, that loop would never exit.  In perl's, it exits
> >on the first iteration (with a warning).
> 
> Except that this functionality was explicitly added to Perl, around 5.005
> I believe.

That doesn't sound right.  Cite, please?  I don't have an older Perl
than 5.005 lying around but I think it behaved that way before too. 
Maybe just the warning is new.

-- 
Rick Delaney
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