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> Now, you might wonder what was gained by having this monster. It > enables > you to leave of the parenthesis in an if statement. Perl goes from a > formfree language to a language with syntactically whitespace for the > benefit of making parenthesis around a conditional optional. "Before the revolution we had the Tzar and the ???, after the revolution we had the Party and the Commissars." I don't recall enough of the quote for google to help, and I'm sure I have important key phrases completely wrong...
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