Re^16: What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO staff

[GrandFather]

I'm lazy. if is shorter and requires no translation compared to and so it's a double win. The rawest Perl newbie, or indeed interlopers from most B derived languages, should have little difficulty understanding the if variant. The and variant with its somewhat subtle use of precedence and evaluation side effects is significantly more of a maintenance burden.

[tobyink]

# Original

if (X) { Y; }

# Postfix if

Y if X;

# Low-precedence and

X and Y;

Low precedence and has the advantage that it is ordered "X, Y" instead of "Y, X".