Thinking more about this, maybe what's really bothering me is that Perl post-conditionals are both non-sequential and infix. I think I wouldn't mind so much if it had prefix syntax:
post-if return ("No artist name or artist id given.", $data, 0, undef)
($data->{artist} eq '');
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Re: Quoting from the perlstyle man page
Date: 2004-11-10 06:04 pm (UTC)post-if return ("No artist name or artist id given.", $data, 0, undef) ($data->{artist} eq '');Hm, maybe that's still a bad idea. Nevermind.