Re: perl6storm #0050

[John Porter]

Simon Cozens wrote:
> 
> Perl is English-like. And sometimes in English parentheses *are* necessary to
> increase both meaning and readability, as your own message proves.

That's rather disingenuous, since perl does not use parens for 
the same purpose English does.  Parens are necessary in a programming
language to override the default precedence.  (Wouldn't it be nice
if we used them in English for that.  Alas.)

"Meaning" is not "increased".  Whether readability is enhanced
is debatable.  I tend to think not.

-- 
John Porter

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