[OT] Should exist / does exist?

[Matt S Trout]

On 7 Dec 2006, at 10:32, Andy Armstrong wrote:

> On 7 Dec 2006, at 10:12, Matt Lawrence wrote:
>> Couldn't you write methods in your iterator class called next,  
>> last, redo or whatever to signal the outer loop via die and eval {}?
>>
>> You wouldn't get the nice natural Perl syntax, but you would have  
>> the freedom to implement any kind of loop control you wanted, even  
>> ones that Perl doesn't support.
>
> Yup, that's my new plan.
>
> OnlyTangentiallyRelated: Do you think PHP rots your brain? I was  
> playing with that last night as a reward for four days of solid,  
> fourteen hour PHP work for a 'friend' and all the crystal clear  
> ideas I thought I had seemed to have turned to poop. I'm convinced  
> there's a mental health risk there... I'm also finding it  
> increasingly hard to consider any language that lacks closures  
> civilised.

You ever doubted it?

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