On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:30:11PM +0000, Sam Vilain wrote: > I think Perl 6 should have a "but" keyword, as in: > > if (defined $foo but $foo eq "") {
*scratches head* so... it negates the left side, then ANDs it with the right? also, it seems to be rather vague to me. in order to sound clearer, I think it would need to be written as if (not defined $foo but $foo eq '') { but then, what does this give us besides another way to write 'and'? I could be missing something basic here, ignore me if I am. > > } > > :-) --hachi P.S. The first 'revision' was mistakenly sent only to the author, not the list, sorry bout that Sam.