Functional Programming in Perl

Syntactic Difficulties

Related note:
I'm trying to write an article explaining monads to Perl programmers
The primary difficulty is syntactic
The notation is impossible
- Even with Haskell's super-concise functional notation, it's almost impossible

        -- Hardly anyone wants to write this:
        eval (Div n d) = 
          (eval n) >>= \nv -> (eval d) >>= \dv -> 
            if dv == 0 then raise "Ouch" else return nv / dv

        -- Instead:
        eval (Div n d) = 
          do nv <- eval n; dv <- eval d; 
          if dv == 0 then raise "Ouch" else return nv / dv

And Perl doesn't have this syntactic sugar, so I'm stuck
Monadic programming appears to be impractical in Perl...
- Only because of syntactic issues