On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:17:05AM -0500, Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1 wrote:
> I have been programming perl for quite some time, but i have never used a
> 'continue' block. It seems just as easy to put any code that one would
> normally put in a continue right into the loop itself. What is the pu
As I recall, the Camel book says something like "the continue block
is not used often in practice" or something like that.
I've not used it either, but you'd use it if you had code in the loop
that interrupts the loop with a next. The code after the continue
gets executed before the condition i
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1 wrote:
> I have been programming perl for quite some time, but i have never used a
> 'continue' block. It seems just as easy to put any code that one would
> normally put in a continue right into the loop itself. What is the purpose
> of a continu
I have been programming perl for quite some time, but i have never used a
'continue' block. It seems just as easy to put any code that one would
normally put in a continue right into the loop itself. What is the purpose
of a continue block? Is there a time where a continue might be prefered to
