Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.

[Peter da Silva]

Now, you might wonder what was gained by having this monster. It 
enables
you to leave of the parenthesis in an if statement. Perl goes from a
formfree language to a language with syntactically whitespace for the
benefit of making parenthesis around a conditional optional.

"Before the revolution we had the Tzar and the ???, after the 
revolution we had the Party and the Commissars."

I don't recall enough of the quote for google to help, and I'm sure I 
have important key phrases completely wrong...