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Re:Why Perl 6 is different by pyre on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @08:44PM (#1281044)
Why? "imperatively executing statements one after the other" does not imply that they have to be on different lines.
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Re:Why Perl 6 is different by loup-vaillant on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @03:05AM (#1281559)
They don't have to, but they are, most of the time. Knowing that, "newline as delimiter" yields the lightest syntax.
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Re:Why Perl 6 is different by eru on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @10:58AM (#1282332)
Plus optional semicolons to put some on the same line as in Python.
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