Re: What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO stuff

9. ... a. Eliminate keyword 'given'

That I can agree with. The rest of your proposals seem either unnecessary (because the facilities already exist in the language) or potentially problematic or almost without utility to me. Sorry. That's not to say you shouldn't suggest them all to p5p for further review of course - it's only the opinion of a humble monk after all.

9. ... b. ... Extend last to accept labels

I have good news: it already does

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Re^2: What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO stuff by likbez (Sexton) on Sep 10, 2020 at 15:16 UTC
> I have good news: it already does What I mean is a numeric "local" (in Pascal style; can be redefined later in other blocks ) label in the context of the Knuth idea of "continuations" outside the loop	[reply]