Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes:
>> This is one area in which Perl still whips Python...
>
> No way. Perl's man pages are organized so poorly there is no
> ergonomic pit deep enough to offset them. Quick, what man page is the
> "do" statement documented in?
Of course there is:
$ perldoc -f do | head
do BLOCK
Not really a function. Returns the value of the last command
in the sequence of commands indicated by BLOCK. When modified
by the "while" or "until" loop modifier, executes the BLOCK
once before testing the loop condition. (On other statements
the loop modifiers test the conditional first.)
"do BLOCK" does not count as a loop, so the loop control
statements "next", "last", or "redo" cannot be used to leave or
restart the block. See perlsyn for alternative strategies.
$
Best,
-Nikolaus
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