>>>>> "Smylers" == Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Smylers> I also was under the strong impression that Larry had decreed Smylers> that we wouldn't have chained statement modifiers ... but I Smylers> thought it was because Larry had decided they would be a bad Smylers> thing to have rather than because they aren't feasible. They weren't chained in Perl5, very deliberately. Larry added modifiers partially to get "do { } while $cond" to work, and partially because he had used them in RSTS/E BASIC (which I've also used, and recognized immediately). But when people started nesting them, the code became incredibly unreadable quickly, so no-nesting for Perl was a deliberate choice, not an implementation detail. Unless Larry has come up with an overwhelming reason to permit them after years of not having them, I doubt we'd see that (IMHO mistake) in Perl6. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!