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From:
John Peacock
Date:
November 2, 2009 07:05
Subject:
Re: "If" your subscript goes bump in the night
Message ID:
4AEEF533.90103@havurah-software.org
Zefram wrote:
> 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.

I'm also not convinced there is any reason to make those parens 
optional; it seems like a needless amount of complication for a very 
small gain...

John

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