No, not the dangling-else problem. I already addressed that in "point 2".

There's something that's in Perl that's not in C that would have made it hard to tell if there was a single expression or a block following. Maybe it's just the anonymous hash constructor, but back when braces were made mandatory, there was no anon-hash constructor, so I don't think that was it.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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