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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> wrote:
> For Perl 6 Larry has reneged on his position so far as to allow
> exactly one statement modifier conditional to be stacked with
> exactly one statement modifier loop (in either order, I believe).
> I am of the opinion that this would befit Perl 5 equally, while
> I agree that to allow stacking in other forms would be unsound
> design.
Allowed:
$a and $b and $c and dosomething;
Not allowed:
dosomething if $c if $b if $a;
seems biased.
Of course, the second could be written
dosomething if ($a and $b and $c);
but that is not as easy to edit to, when you're adding yet another condition.
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