Quote #111
It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
More from Larry Wall
- I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
- A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
- As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that... :-)
- How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem?
- Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
- Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.
- It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
- You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all. :-)