in reply to No braces

Being Lazy, I prefer the C syntax. This is a rare instance of Perl forcing the programmer to do something in one particular way.

Will Perl6 give us back the C syntax?

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Re: No braces
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Feb 11, 2004 at 11:34 UTC
    Being Lazy, I prefer the C syntax.
    which only saves you a single character; unlike in C the semicolon in Perl separates statements, while in C it terminates statements. So, in C you write: 
    if (COND) STATEMENT;

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    in Perl you write: 
    if (COND) {STATEMENT}

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    Will Perl6 give us back the C syntax?
    Extremely unlikely, considering the promotion blocks have made in perl6, and the fact parenthesis around the condition will be optional. In perl6, you can write: 
    if COND {STATEMENT}

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    which is one character less than the equivalent C syntax. (Well, this isn't quite true if you look at white space as well).

    Abigail

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