On Monday 21 January 2002 11:27, Larry Wall wrote:
> Compound statements in Perl 5 do have an implicit {} around the entire
> statement, but that has nothing to do with the required parentheses
> around the expressions, other than the fact that we're doing away with
> both of those special rules in Perl 6. But parentheses have always
> been totally transparent to any C<my> contained within them. It's
> the implicit {} that was protecting the C<if> condition from getting
> a warning like the C<elsif> got (which got the warning because it's
> at the same scope level as C<if>'s declaration).
But the flies are spontaneously generating! ;-)
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Bryan C. Warnock
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