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>>>>> "Smylers" == Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com> writes:
Smylers> I also was under the strong impression that Larry had decreed
Smylers> that we wouldn't have chained statement modifiers ... but I
Smylers> thought it was because Larry had decided they would be a bad
Smylers> thing to have rather than because they aren't feasible.
They weren't chained in Perl5, very deliberately.
Larry added modifiers partially to get "do { } while $cond" to work,
and partially because he had used them in RSTS/E BASIC (which I've
also used, and recognized immediately). But when people started
nesting them, the code became incredibly unreadable quickly, so
no-nesting for Perl was a deliberate choice, not an implementation
detail.
Unless Larry has come up with an overwhelming reason to permit them
after years of not having them, I doubt we'd see that (IMHO mistake)
in Perl6.
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