Luke Palmer wrote:
> Recently, I believe we decided that {} should, as a special case, be
> an empty hash rather than a do-nothing code, because that's more
> common.
>
> However, what do we do about:
>
> while $x-- && some_condition($x) {}
>
> Here, while is being passed a hash, not a do-nothing code. Should we
> force people to write:
>
> while $x-- && some_condition($x) {;}
>
> Or should we make a counter-special case of some sort? Or should we
> take out the {} special case altogether and force people to write
> hash()?
As a third possibility, could we huffman-code "do nothing" clauses by
leaving out the appropriate argument? That is:
while $x-- && some_condition($x);
or
loop ( ; some_condition($x) ; $x--);
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Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
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