Can we please have an alias 'but' for the 'and' binary operator in programming languages?
if outside and moving_slowly ⇒ if outside but moving_slowly
if online and not connected ⇒ if online but not connected
Such semantics made :perl: #Perl a bliss to write in some cases (if not ⇒ unless), although Perl doesn't have this 'but' alias. Probably #rakuLang can change itself at runtime to add this alias 😅
This applies to both unless and until. Congratulations if you've used them in the past: you contributed to #Perl's reputation as a write-only language in the eyes of the person who had to revise your code to deal with more complicated conditions.
@mjgardner Luckily I didn't write or publish anything serious in #Perl, let alone something that someone else would review. It was just one of my first programming languages to learn and I really liked these 'unless' and 'until' keywords because I think they make certain cases much more readable. But okay, if that's considered bad practice, oh well 🤷
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