On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:14:02 -0400
Brandon McCaig <bamcc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that you are just misunderstanding what is happening
> here. `perldoc perlsyn' explains it. These are actually two
> different things. The compound if-statement, which is typical of
> other languages, and the if-style "statement modifier". The
> syntax of the statement modifier is:
>
> STATEMENT if EXPR;
>
> Where STATEMENT is a single statement (what that statement is
> doesn't really matter, though the documentation does say
> "simple" so perhaps there is a limit).
Actually, if you use a do BLOCK, there's no limit.
perl -E'do{ say "hello"; say "world"; } if 1;'
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Don't stop where the ink does.
Shawn
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