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in reply to Re^2: If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be:
in thread If I was forced to program in another language, the Perl language feature I would miss most would be:

Heredocs aren't uniquely Perl. Larry sto^H^H^Hborrowed the idea from the shell. Trailing commas are allowed in other languages as well. The qw operator is what the shell does by default.

I don't think anything on the list is something unique to Perl. Not even formats.

Now, if there was an entry "all of the above", then you'd be talking about something uniquely to Perl.