No, because the
if $a
from "return if $a;" doesn't match the production
if <expression> <block> [else <block>]
I so don't want to be anywhere near the Perl6 parser...
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Gordon Henriksen
IT Manager
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Lazzaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Control flow variables
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 06:38 AM, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > Given that we've introduced the concept of "if" having a
> return status:
> >
> > my $result = if ($a) { $a } else { $b };
> >
>
> Would that then imply that
>
> sub blah {
> ... # 1
> return if $a; # 2
> ... # 3
> }
>
> ...would return $a if $a was true, and fall through to (3) if it was
> false?
>
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes:
> >>> Luke Palmer:
> >>>> That's illegal anyway. Can't chain statement modifiers :-)
> >> Will be able to.
>
> I was under the strong impression that Larry had decided that
> syntactic
> ambiguities prevented this from happening. (Now, of course, you will
> ask me for a cite to the thread, which I can't even begin to find at
> this point...)
>
> MikeL
>
>
