Damian Conway wrote:
> If the rule was, "you can leave a comma out either side of a block/closure,
> no matter where it appears in the argument list", it would also be more
> consistent.
>
> And that's what's being contemplated. Because otherwise, you also have
> to have:
>
> for @list, {...}
> if $condition, {...}
> given $value, {...}
> :-(
Hmm. I had been figuring the all conditional/loop stuff would be
special cases within the grammar, because of their associated cruft...
but if comma-optional is allowed on *either* side of any block, it means
that their grammar becomes quite trivial.
So 'if' and friends are just (native) subroutines with prototypes like:
sub if (bool $c, Code $if_block) {...};
or whatever the heck the syntax turns out to be.
That wins the less-special-cases war by a mile, so I emphatically
withdraw my objection. Thanks.
MikeL
