Larry Wall wrote:
Jonathan Lang wrote: : Larry Wall wrote: : >: Finally: when used as a statement modifier, is "given" considered to : >: be conditional or looping? (Gut instinct: conditional.) : > : >Why does it have to be one or the other? It's just a topicalizer. : : One implication of replacing "statement_modifier" with : "statement_mod_cond" and "statement_mod_loop" is that every statement : modifier has to be defined as one or the other.Ah, in that sense 'given' is currently considered a loop, and 'when' is considered a conditional, so it's legal to say say "halt" when 42 given $answer; That follows from the recent decision to allow a condition inside a loop to make it easy to write list comprehensions. (The same decision that turned 'for' into a map clone, by the way, and made 'if' return () when false, at least in the absence of an 'else'.)
Nice. Thank you. -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
