On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:29:58AM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 18:20, Damian Conway wrote:
> > Miko O'Sullivan wrote:
>
> > > before { ... } # run before first iteration,
> > > # only if there is at least one iteration
> >
> > Larry is still considering allowing a C<FIRST> block that would do this.
> [...]
> > This will be called a C<NEXT> block. It goes inside the loop block.
> [...]
> > This will be called a C<LAST> block. It goes inside the loop block.
> [...]
> > C<else> blocks to accomplish this.
>
> This bothers me. Traditionally, all-caps keywords in Perl have indicated
> compile-time constructs that may relate only loosely to the code around
> them (e.g. BEGIN, END).
Actually all-caps keywords in Perl have indicated code blocks that perl
will call implicitly:
TIEHASH
TIEARRAY
STORE
FETCH
etc
Which seems to fit well enough with the perl6 usage.
Tim.
