Most Perl 6 will look like Perl 5

[Mark Overmeer]

* Jonathan Stowe (jns at gellyfish.com) [080125 09:59]:
> >   for my $t (0 .. 6) {
> >   for 0..6 -> $t {
> 
> change in syntax for no apparent benefit. Now I am sure someone is going
> to reply "but but ... ", and I can assure that the wrong answer will be
> to explain it to *me* in relation to some fashionable CS idea or
> functional programming paradigm or whatever.

The advantage is that
   for my($x,$y) (@x;@y) {
is quite clumpsy (if feasible to implement at all)
But
   for @x, at y -> $x,$y
is possible.

But most importantly, "->" is used for nameless subroutines in Perl6,
so the $t is seen as parameter to that subroutine, and the body of the
for is nothing different than a sub.
Listing the parameters before the "sub" keyword would be quite weird -
although we have seen worse in our history ;-b
-- 
               MarkOv

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