From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T12:29:50+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR 296: Destructive methods return self

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> I want some syntactical support if cascading method call have to be
> introduced, not by a method (except for instance_eval, of course).

What do you think about Perl 6's given statement?

It would look somewhat like this:

given "string" (do?)
   .reverse!
   .chop!
end

Or are you thinking of a more symbolic syntax? I think that would be harder.