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I'm lazy. if is shorter and requires no translation compared to and so it's a double win. The rawest Perl newbie, or indeed interlopers from most B derived languages, should have little difficulty understanding the if variant. The and variant with its somewhat subtle use of precedence and evaluation side effects is significantly more of a maintenance burden.

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond
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Re^17: What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO staff
by tobyink (Canon) on Oct 12, 2020 at 00:27 UTC 
    # Original

if (X) { Y; }

# Postfix if

Y if X;

# Low-precedence and

X and Y;

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    Low precedence and has the advantage that it is ordered "X, Y" instead of "Y, X".

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