Anyway, I still think unless is still
much nicer than its slang equivalent, !if .
I have no problem with unless, but I
cringe when I see it used as the block form. I find it interesting to note
that perlsyn doesn't even bother mentioning it, so I'm surprised that it pops
up so often.
It is mentioned in perlsyn (5.8.2), it's just easy to miss it:
from perlsyn(1):
The following compound statements may be used to control flow:
if (EXPR) BLOCK
if (EXPR) BLOCK else BLOCK
if (EXPR) BLOCK elsif (EXPR) BLOCK ... else BLOCK
...
The "if" statement is straightforward. Because BLOCKs are alwa
+ys bounded by curly
brackets, there is never any ambiguity about which "if" an "els
+e" goes with. If
you use "unless" in place of "if", the sense of the test is rev
+ersed.
Btw, why isn't there an elsunless statement like
if : unless = while : until = elsif : elsunless?
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