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in reply to Re: what would you like to see in perl5.12?
in thread what would you like to see in perl5.12?

Assertions will not be in 5.10: http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/125090.

Ricardo's objections IMO boil down to wanting them to be something completely different and less useful, with a dash of not understanding the interaction of context and blocks. (See my comments here and here.)