Q: Is there a reason why I can't do this?

[Daniel Carrera]

Hello,

Looking at the first example in "Using Perl6", I have:

if $r1 > $r2 {
    %matches{$p1}++;
} else {
    %matches{$p2}++;
}

I was thinking that it should be possible to make this more compact, but the
two ideas I tried didn't work:

# Idea 1 gives: Unable to parse postcircumfix:sym<{ }>, couldn't find final
'}'
%matches{  $r1 > $r2 ? $p1 : $p2 }++;

# Idea 2 gives: Unable to parse blockoid, couldn't find final '}'
$r1 > $r2 ? { %matches{$p1}++ } : { %matches{$p2}++ };


Is there a way to make something along these lines work?

Daniel.
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