perlsyn.pod and continue blocks with foreach

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#930 (status was 'resolved')

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From desar@club-internet.fr

  The following compound statements may be used to control
  flow​:

  if (EXPR) BLOCK
  if (EXPR) BLOCK else BLOCK
  if (EXPR) BLOCK elsif (EXPR) BLOCK ... else BLOCK
  LABEL while (EXPR) BLOCK
  LABEL while (EXPR) BLOCK continue BLOCK
  LABEL for (EXPR; EXPR; EXPR) BLOCK
  LABEL foreach VAR (LIST) BLOCK
  LABEL BLOCK continue BLOCK

which seems to say you cannot write statements such

  LABEL foreach VAR (LIST) BLOCK continue BLOCK

although it seems to work perfectly​:

  my $i=100;
  for(1,2,3,4,5) {
  $_ % 2
  or next;
  print "$_\n"
  } continue { $i++ }
  print "=>$i"

compiles and correctly outputs

1
3
5
=>105

Is it an 'accidental' feature (I find *very* useful) or a missing line in perlsyn.pod ?

--
perl -V

This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i686-linux-thread

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Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit.

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[root@​fdesar /root]# perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=linux, osvers=2.0.36, archname=i686-linux-thread
  uname='linux fdesar 2.0.36 #5 sun nov 29 14​:21​:28 cet 1998 i686 unknown '
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=define useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.7.2.3
  cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
  ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
  stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
  alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
  libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lposix -lcrypt
  libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
  cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl)​:
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Mar 29 1999 16​:01​:39
  @​INC​:
  /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i686-linux-thread
  /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i686-linux-thread
  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
  .
--
François Désarménien

Membre de l'ACM <http​://www.acm.org>
Membre de l'AFUL <http​://www.aful.org>

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From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

fixed in perl-current

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From The RT System itself

fixed in perl-current