Random Perl 6 syntax rant

[Ovid]

--- Simon Wistow <simon at thegestalt.org> wrote:

> Yet every example we see looks alien and unfamiliar - the edge cases 
> seem to be the norm.

No, that's just because no one complains about things which they're
familiar and comfortable with (or have wanted in Perl 5 for so long
that they wouldn't complain about it).

  my $cold = 3;

  sub f2c ($temp) { return ( $temp - 32 ) * ( 5 / 9 ) }
  
  if ( f2c($some_temp) > $cold ) {
      say "$some_temp is really cold";
  }

Simple.  Straightforward.  No one complains (some parens above are
optional and you can cheerfully leave them in with no problem).

When people complain, they're usually complaining about new things.

Cheers,
Ovid

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