"Orton, Yves" <yves.orton@de.mci.com> wrote
> So if it does work for goto but not next, whats the cause of the difference
> I wonder?

goto has to allow an arbitrary SV as argument, in order to support

	my $sub = sub { ... };
		...
	goto &$sub;

I guess that cases like

	my $label = 'LABEL';
		...
	goto $label;

just came out in the wash.


Mike Guy