On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 10:25:20AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
>perlsyn says you can't have
> for (EXPR; EXPR; EXPR) BLOCK continue BLOCK
>(or at least doesn't list it as allowed). Unfortunately, perl seems to
>agree:
>
>$ perl -e 'for ($i = 0; $i < 10; ++$i) { } continue { }'
>syntax error at -e line 1, near "} continue"
>Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
>
>It'd be nice if that were possible...
Well internally perl implements
for (EXPR1; EXPR2; EXPR3) BLOCK
as
EXPR1; while (EXPR2) BLOCK continue { EXPR3 }
which makes adding a continue block a bit trickier. It does however
suggest your solution, stash your contine expressions after ++$i:
for ($i = 0; $i < 10; ++$i, CONT) { }
--bod
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