Re: [ID 20000119.002] 'next' undefines variables in 'continue' block

[Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:00:36 PST, Larry Wall wrote:
>Gurusamy Sarathy writes:
>: Change 4849 by gsar@auger on 2000/01/23 08:17:30
>: 
>: 	fix localization in while BLOCK when there is a continue BLOCK
>: 	by introducing an explicit scope (c.f. change#4848)
>
>Tim is worried about backward compatibility.  I'm worried about performance.

We ought to do some tests to see how bad it is, but I should point out
that loops without a continue block are unchanged by the patch.


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com

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References to:

Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>

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