Less clutter and more readability, really. Kinda like Perl's trailing conditionals... 
$x = 8 if $x == 7;

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which then you can use to semi-duplicate in a twisted way C and Java's style: 
$x = 0
    unless $x == 7;
$x = 8
    if $x == 7;

# ... or maybe ternary operator? ...

$x = $x == 7 ? 8 : 0;

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Update Fixed code example as per Abigail-II's reply. Sorry about that, and yes, the first is less efficient, but we weren't talking about efficiency here, only style (not to say it isn't a good point to bring up).

In reply to Re: No braces by The Mad Hatter
in thread No braces by jacques

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