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On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> For what it's worth I once asked Larry Wall on #perl6 if he'd consider
> making everything an expression in Perl 6, i.e. you could always stick
> an assignment in front of any block.
>
> He didn't like that for language design reasons, he thought that
> expressions and blocks should be distinct constructs.
>
> I think for Perl 5 it makes the most sense to just continue using do {}.
( expression )
could always be
do { expression }
could it not?
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