On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:21 PM, Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> wrote: > Another suggestion, which may not be any good, is to use 'when' > for truth: > > when($quality eq 'so-so') { ... } > > and 'beit' (be it) for smartmatch: > > beit(numerical) { ... } > > In English, we already combine those two words in 'albeit'. > FWIW, I like it! Unlike anything I could come up with, this is unambiguous as to which is which: Only when the topic ("it") is explicit in the keyword, is the topic ($_) implicit in the following expression. The only thing I can hold against it is, well, might the subjunctive be too much for the non-linguist programmer? EirikThread Previous | Thread Next