Over time, one or two prove to be universally useful (seems to be Moose), and emerges as a quasi standard.

Thats really good, I completely agree with you on this. There must be some standard. Else what would generally happen is a dozen different keywords would crop up for the very same semantic and that makes Perl code a touch difficult to maintain. Hence the same problem of maintainability keeps coming over and over again.

Coming to your if example, That is not what I mean't. I think I was not clear.Two ways of using a 'if' is perfectly alright. But what if there are a dozen synonyms for if? .What I meant was the following. 

say $x if $x > 0;
if $x > 0 {
   say $x;
}

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say $x fi $x > 0;
fi $x > 0 {
   say $x;
}

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say $x on $x > 0;
on $x > 0 {
    say $x;
}

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Now this is just a 'if' example, if this thing gets replicated everywhere don't you think its not the right way forward.

In reply to Re^4: What is best for the future. by Anonymous Monk
in thread What is best for the future. by Anonymous Monk

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