Re: perl6storm #0050

[John Porter]

Philip Newton wrote:
> On 26 Sep 2000, Johan Vromans wrote:
> > 
> > By the same reasoning, you can reduce the use of curlies by using
> > indentation to define block structure.
> 
> What an idea! I wonder why no language has tried this before.

It's a question of what the language allows vs. what it requires.
Perl is nice because it allows you to write in (nearly) any style you
want -- lots of parens, no whitespace...  Requiring the use of parens
is about as un-perl-like as requiring indentation to denote blocks.

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John Porter

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