From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-08-19T02:45:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax checker wtf?

On Aug 18, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:

> Daniel Martin wrote:
>> I'll note that perl has a similarly flexible syntax,
>
> I don't think so.  For example, you must terminate statements with  
> a ";"  (or did that change in the latest version?) and you cannot  
> omit parentheses.

Both Perl and Ruby allow parenthesis to be dropped in most cases:

   $ perl -we 'print("Hello world!\n")'
   Hello world!
   $ perl -we 'print "Hello world!\n"'
   Hello world!

James Edward Gray II