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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH "NAME" Return::MultiLevel \- return across multiple call levels .SH "SYNOPSIS" .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 1 \& use Return::MultiLevel qw(with_return); \& \& sub inner { \& my ($f) = @_; \& $f\->(42); # implicitly return from \*(Aqwith_return\*(Aq below \& print "You don\*(Aqt see this\en"; \& } \& \& sub outer { \& my ($f) = @_; \& inner($f); \& print "You don\*(Aqt see this either\en"; \& } \& \& my $result = with_return { \& my ($return) = @_; \& outer($return); \& die "Not reached"; \& }; \& print $result, "\en"; # 42 .Ve .SH "DESCRIPTION" .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" This module provides a way to return immediately from a deeply nested call stack. This is similar to exceptions, but exceptions don't stop automatically at a target frame (and they can be caught by intermediate stack frames using \&\f(CW\*(C`eval\*(C'\fR). In other words, this is more like \&\fIsetjmp\fR\|(3)/\fIlongjmp\fR\|(3) than \f(CW\*(C`die\*(C'\fR. .PP Another way to think about it is that the \*(L"multi-level return\*(R" coderef represents a single\-use/upward\-only continuation. .SS "Functions" .IX Subsection "Functions" The following functions are available (and can be imported on demand). .IP "with_return \s-1BLOCK\s0" 4 .IX Item "with_return BLOCK" Executes \fI\s-1BLOCK\s0\fR, passing it a code reference (called \f(CW$return\fR in this description) as a single argument. Returns whatever \fI\s-1BLOCK\s0\fR returns. .Sp If \f(CW$return\fR is called, it causes an immediate return from \f(CW\*(C`with_return\*(C'\fR. Any arguments passed to \f(CW$return\fR become \f(CW\*(C`with_return\*(C'\fR's return value (if \&\f(CW\*(C`with_return\*(C'\fR is in scalar context, it will return the last argument passed to \&\f(CW$return\fR). .Sp It is an error to invoke \f(CW$return\fR after its surrounding \fI\s-1BLOCK\s0\fR has finished executing. In particular, it is an error to call \f(CW$return\fR twice. .SH "DEBUGGING" .IX Header "DEBUGGING" This module uses \f(CW\*(C`unwind\*(C'\fR from \&\f(CW\*(C`Scope::Upper\*(C'\fR to do its work. If \&\f(CW\*(C`Scope::Upper\*(C'\fR is not available, it substitutes its own pure Perl implementation. You can force the pure Perl version to be used regardless by setting the environment variable \f(CW\*(C`RETURN_MULTILEVEL_PP\*(C'\fR to 1. .PP If you get the error message \f(CW\*(C`Attempt to re\-enter dead call frame\*(C'\fR, that means something has called a \f(CW$return\fR from outside of its \f(CW\*(C`with_return { ... }\*(C'\fR block. You can get a stack trace of where that \f(CW\*(C`with_return\*(C'\fR was by setting the environment variable \f(CW\*(C`RETURN_MULTILEVEL_DEBUG\*(C'\fR to 1. .SH "BUGS AND LIMITATIONS" .IX Header "BUGS AND LIMITATIONS" You can't use this module to return across implicit function calls, such as signal handlers (like \f(CW$SIG{ALRM}\fR) or destructors (\f(CW\*(C`sub DESTROY { ... }\*(C'\fR). These are invoked automatically by perl and not part of the normal call chain. .SH "AUTHOR" .IX Header "AUTHOR" Lukas Mai, \f(CW\*(C`\*(C'\fR .SH "COPYRIGHT & LICENSE" .IX Header "COPYRIGHT & LICENSE" Copyright 2013\-2014 Lukas Mai. .PP This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the \s-1GNU\s0 General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License. .PP See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.