Author: larry Date: Mon Apr 10 19:21:56 2006 New Revision: 8637 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod
Log: Bare block executes immediately; return of closure must be explicit. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Mon Apr 10 19:21:56 2006 @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Maintainer: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 19 Aug 2004 - Last Modified: 6 Apr 2006 + Last Modified: 10 Apr 2006 Number: 4 - Version: 13 + Version: 14 This document summarizes Apocalypse 4, which covers the block and statement syntax of Perl. @@ -287,6 +287,10 @@ useful for the do-once block, since it is offically a loop and can take therefore loop control statements. +Although a bare block is no longer a do-once loop, it still executes +immediately as in Perl 5. If you wish to return a closure from a +function, you must use an explicit C<return>. + =head1 Switch statements A switch statement is a means of topicalizing, so the switch keyword
