Re: $a in @b

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

> Exactly the sort of chicanery grep/last is meant to avoid.  So the question
> becomes, how do we crowbar "last" in without altering the returned value in
> C<map> blocks. I'm for putting it after a comma.  Which matches the syntax of
> John Porter's proposal about internally converting the block to a subroutine.

Maybe it's simply time to give up trying to bend existing semantics
and think of a new flow control keyword?

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