Damian Conway wrote:
Rather than addition Yet Another Feature, what's wrong with just using:for @list ¥ @list[1...] -> $curr, $next { ... } ???
There's nothing particularly wrong with it -- just as ther's nothing particularly wrong with any number of other "we don't need this, because we can program it" things. Perl5 had many other these: "we don't need a switch statement", "we don't need function signatures", etc.
My original idea, not consuming optional bindings, is barely a new feature: just a clarification of the rules in a corner-case of the language. Others took the idea and ran with it and added the bells as whistles. I guess the best alternative is to say that optional bindings aren't allowed in this context -- that leaves the issue open for Perl 6.1 (or a module).
