I know, shoot me -- but just so we've discussed it and put it to bed, maybe :if or _if or fi?
<shudders> --- Aaron Crane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Larry Wall writes: > > Maybe we should just make statement modifiers uppercase and burn > out > > everyone's eye sockets. :) > > I like statement modifiers, and I want them to continue to exist in > Perl 6. > But it seems to me that a lot of the most awkward decisions about > Perl 6 > syntax are awkward precisely because > > EXPR > if EXPR; > BLOCK > > and > > EXPR; > if EXPR BLOCK > > are so similar. > > Bearing that in mind, would the eye-socket-burning > > return $foo > IF $something; > > really be so bad? > > Alternatively, perhaps it's possible to find some other morphological > or > syntactic device to distinguish statement_modifier:<if> from > statement_control:<if>, for both humans and the compiler. One option > might > be to require an extra token (a postfix complementizer?) before a > statement > modifier. Maybe something like this: > > return $foo > --- if $something; > > -- > Aaron Crane > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
