If you don't like leaving off the parens, then don't. They are becoming optional, not illegal.

I'm not actually certain that you misunderstood that. I feel a bit like you've talked all around the point but I'm left guessing what your primary point was. But it sure feels like you got the impression that 

    if( CONDITION ) {
        CODE
    }

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would no longer be supported in Perl 6.

So if that wasn't your premise, I apologize for not getting your point.

In any case, I suspect that most people won't be dropping the parens much -- based on my impression that most people don't currently drop the optional parens from 

    STATEMENT if CONDITION;

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(like I usually do) and my agreement with you that dropping the former parens will be rather jarring in relation to similar languages (both Perl5 and non-Perl languages).

- tye        

In reply to Re^4: Perl oddities ("if" w/o parens) by tye
in thread Perl oddities by brian_d_foy

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