Quote #108
Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
More from Larry Wall
- It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
- As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that... :-)
- I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
- I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
- Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.
- It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
- Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
- A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.