On Tuesday 11 May 2004 10:13 pm, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 08:31:55PM -0400, Andrew Rodland wrote:
> : On Tuesday 11 May 2004 08:00 pm, Pedro Larroy wrote:
> : > Hi
> : >
> : > Is there any chance that in perl6 there will be the possibility to
> : > write if/else statements without {}s with the condition at the
> : > beginning?> : Yes, I know that I'm diverting rather than strictly answering. My > : personal opinion is that I can live with it, because I've shot myself in > : that particular foot before, and that there are good reasons. My other > : opinion is that I wouldn't mind if a particular rule in the grammar could > : be enabled / disabled with "use strict 'braces'" either, as it is > : somewhat unperlish to prevent footshooting for that sake alone. > > That's gonna be pretty unlikely. We've basically decided that, in > terms of readability, it makes a whole lot more sense to get rid of > the parens than the curlies, and you can't make both the parens and > the curlies optional. > Aha. I knew that there was one important point that I was missing out on, and that's the one. And that one does count as a "technical" reason for p6, if not p5. Hope I've clarified, Pedro. --Andrew
