perl qstn...

[RW]

On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:57:17 +0100
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

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> I've always found that 'unless' makes a great deal of sense when used
> in the alternate syntax:
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> do_foo()
>     unless $condition ;
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> As far as I know, perl and its descendant ruby are the only
> programming languages that let you put the condition test after the
> action, 

IMO this is a bad mistake that other languages were quite right not to
copy - a test shouldn't come after a block of code unless it's evaluated
after the block (as in repeat...until)