Perl's lack of 'in' keyword

[Paul LeoNerd Evans]

On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:08:21 +0100
Andy Wardley <abw at wardley.org> wrote:

> However, I certainly would be in favour of having an extra 'in' keyword

There's always a danger when adding new keywords that they'll clash with
existing functions in existing code, given as they're barewords. That's
why 5.10 has the 'use feature' pragma for switch/etc...

I suppose you could

  use feature qw( in );

but then does it really buy all that much?

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