On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:24:42AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > That's why there's a statement_control:<if>, and there's a > statement_modifer:<if>, but there's no prefix:<if>. If you see > a statement modifier in the middle of an expression, it must be > interpreted as a statement modifier regardless of the context. > Statement modifiers are among the "most reserved" words in Perl.
Aye. Is there an idea on how the two forms of `if` would be defined using plain Perl 6? > So despite the fact that return parses like a list operator and > expects a term after it, the "if" is acting a bit like a semicolon. Got it. What if the user had defined a prefix form of `if`, though? Is it resolved using the precedence table? Thanks, /Autrijus/
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