Re: [PATCH RFC 08/10] send-email: Add --sleep for email throttling
From: Michael Witten <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:35
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 21:27, Jay Soffian [off-list ref] wrote:
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Michael Witten [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
+if (defined $sleep) {{ +}}What's the double-brackets about?
The {} that form the true-body of the if statement don't actually
denote a block. The extra layer of {} is explicitly creating a block.
This is done, because in Perl, blocks can be thought of as loops that
execute one iteration, so you can use all of the loop flow-control
operators 'redo', 'last', and 'next'.
In this case, I wanted to use 'last' to jump out of --sleep setup
should the user decide to do so, because I think it's cleaner than a
goto or variable check or superfluous loop:
if (defined $sleep) {{
unless ($chain_reply_to) {
...
/^b/ or
/^s/ and $chain_reply_to = 1 or
/^c/ and $sleep = undef, last or # forget --sleep was ever used
/^n/ and $chain_reply_to = 1, $sleep = undef, last or # forget --sleep was ever used
/^q/ and exit;
}
...
}}
# last jumps to here
Anyway, this particular behavior was requested (and seems reasonable):
http://marc.info/?l=git&m=123929919621279&w=2
Sincerely,
Michael Witten