I'm very much in favour of heteronymifying scalar vs list comma too. Or else eliminating one of them.
Schwern wrote:
"then" sounds too much like "if/then" which is confusing.
Why? "if/then" has never been Perl syntax.
It also doesn't convey anything about "evaluate the left hand side, ignore the results and evaluate the right".
I think that's exactly what it conveys:
The suspect drank half a dozen double whiskys then drove into a lake.
Sounds *exactly* like ignoring the results of the left hand side to me. ;-)
Unfortunately, I don't have a better name.
I don't think there *is* a better word.
Of course, it may well be that, given the rarity of scalar commas, a better alternative is to simply eliminate them entirely and insist that people use C<do{...;...;...}> instead.
Damian
