On Jun 25, 2013 3:11 AM, "lee" <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > > shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Lee, can you provide an example of another programming language that > > implements this or a thesis that describes this problem in more depth? > > I'm not sure what you mean --- other programming languages I know don't > have two different kinds of 'if's and the irregularities involved with > that. That's where an expectation that an 'if' should always be an 'if' > and that the syntax of the same keyword should always be the same comes > from.
How does perl have "different kinds of if' s"? I don't think I read that in the docs? > > > This is sort of a p5p question but the above might cut this off at the > > knees (or better show a gap that needs to be filled). > > What is a p5p question? > Whether a lastif operator is appropriate (I don't see it is but maybe I'm missing something since this has spawned a bit of a conversation).
