Note that the braces are completely unnecessary in the 'C' example, and looks quite pretty as: 
if (!strcmp (invar, "true"))
  printf ("It's true\n");
else
  printf ("It's false\n");

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You can make Perl just as ugly, and it wasn't very nice to yank 'C' in as a bad example. Remember, Perl is written in 'C'...

Not to mention, 'C' doesn't have a 'eq' operator, doesn't support variables with $ in the name, and only single characters may be single quoted, so it wouldn't have compiled anyway.

And sometimes, I sure wish Perl didn't require bracing the code block after 'if' or 'else', because I don't like cuddled style parans, anyway.

--Chris

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