A lot of people read "if (foo) { bar }" as "if foo then bar" in their heads.
I'm one of them. Its not a previous syntax thing, its a translation to
English thing.
Fair enough. It's not something I do myself, but I can see that many people might prefer to.
This may be a consequence of the example used
while $n++ then $foo > $bar
which I immediately associated with.
if $n++ then $foo > $bar
Yeah, I can certainly see that.
Perhaps this is yet another argument for insisting on:
while do {$n++; $foo > $bar}
instead.
Because, like you, I sure would like to be able to get rid of those parens around comma'd lists.
Damian
