Graham Barr wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 03:58:49PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Case 1:
> > do {
> > if my $foo = bar() {
> > ...
> > }
> > }
Case 2:
> if ((my $foo = bar()) eq 'foo') {
> ...
> }
>
> if ($foo eq 'bar') {
> ...
> }
Despite fear of joining in a religious argument, to me Case 1 above is much
more painful (both in readability and typing) than fixing Case 2 with a
single line would be.
More importantly, named arguments in subroutines would break lexical scoping
according to the "only inside the braces" definition. IMHO, what we
sacrifice (larger private scope + maintainability + paramed subs...) seems
more dear than what we gain (parsing purity?).
Regards,
Michael Percy
