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Comment by fnord123 | Hacker News Reader

ProTip:

In both languages you can do the following:

    return number > 2;

Not really the same thing. The Perl version is generally used as an early abort either from a subroutine or a loop.

    return if($number > 2);

Is equivalent to:

    if($number > 2){
        return;
    }

I didn't know that. Thanks for explaining it.

But that's different. Perl's variant isn't that intuitive.

Also that was just an example. Another along the same line:

  x = 42 if y > 7;

Rather than

  x = match y > 7 { true => 42, false => 0 };

Or even:

  foo() if bar();

Rather than:

  if bar() { foo() }

Given how crucially important scopes are to Rust, this would be a uniquely poor fit. :P

Yeah, I totally understand why not. Just my comments from the peanut gallery :)