> >
> > If I was using one specific group of commands, Could I put
> them inside a
> > variable, then just use the variable when I needed the
> commands instead of
> > copying and pasting them?
> >
> > i.e.
> > print "Hello world";
> > if ($i == 50) {
> > goto MAIN;
> > }
> > elsif ($t == 100) {
> > goto SECONDARY;
> > }
> >
> > as compared to
> >
> > $command =
> > print "Hello world";
> > if ($i == 50) {
> > goto MAIN;
> > }
> > elsif ($t == 100) {
> > goto SECONDARY;
> > };
>
> Hi Joel.
>
> Both your question and your code suggest that you're not
> thinking about your programming solution properly. I
> don't think I've ever seen a Perl script that used 'goto'.
> Not that is the Bad Thing that many people make out, it's
> just usually a non-intuitive way of expressing a solution.
> Also, what you describe is a subroutine, which is simply
> a named piece of code. Have you come from programming BASIC
> by any chance? In its earlier versions BASIC control flow
> was entirely dependent on GOTO <line> and GOSUB <line>, as
> it was based on the syntax of assembler languages.
>
Don't be too harsh on this guy.. Hey, he has come up with the idea
that statements can be grouped into variables. Give him a bit of time
and he'll name the variables... Group these variables into 'classes'
of variables, and eventually come up with a scheme to read these groups
of variables containing statements from an external file!
Who *KNOWS* what he might come up with next! Given time, he may advance
perl! Heck, I know I havent come up with any new idea's recently.
*grin*
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require sig;
sig::japh;
}
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