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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?
Eirik
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