--- Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So, as I sweat here in the salt mines of C++, longing for the
> > cleansing joy that Perl(5 or 6, I'd even take 4) is, I find myself
> > with the following problem:
> >
> > Frequently, I find myself writing stuff like this:
> >
> > void Ficp400::SaveRow(long p_row)
> > {
> > // if p_row is marked as deleted, return
> > if (GetStatus(row) & FLX_ROW_DELETE) { return; }
> >
> > ...
> > }
> >
> > As a general rule, I don't like comments. When I see a comment, I
> > want to turn it into a function name. So, I keep wanting to be
> able
> > to write the above code like so:
> >
> >
> >
> > void Ficp400::SaveRow(long p_row)
> > {
> > Return_If_Is_Deleted(p_row);
> >
> > ...
> > }
> >
>
> sub Ficp400::SaveRow(Int $p_row)
> {
> return if IsDeleted($p_row);
> }
But if you really need to make a function out of it, see the C<leave>
keyword.
=Austin
