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From:
Zefram
Date:
November 2, 2009 06:50
Subject:
Re: "If" your subscript goes bump in the night
Message ID:
20091102145012.GP4448@fysh.org
David Nicol wrote:
>could the expression parsing rules change following an if or
>unless or while or until but nowhere else

The last thing the Perl grammar needs is *another* set of subtly-different
parsing rules for different situations.  Especially whitespace-sensitive
ones, and especially ones involving braces.  I'd *much* rather just keep
mandatory parens.

-zefram
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