... as a term

[Larry Wall]

Randal L. Schwartz writes:
:         if ($a == $b) { ... } # should this be string or number comparison?

Actually, it's a syntax error, because of the ... there.  :-)

But that reminds me of something I wanted a few months ago.

I'd entertain a proposal that ... be made a valid term that happens
to do nothing, so that you can run your examples through perl -c for
syntax checks.  Or better, make it an official "stub" for rapid
prototyping, with some way of getting a warning whenever you execute
such a stub.

Larry