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

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

Probably the ability to do something stupid like

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $function = sub {
    @_ = ( 1, 2, 3, 4, qw/5 6 7 8 9/, );
    do {
      next if $_ % 2;
      eval { $_ = @_[ 0 .. $_ ] };
      print <<IT
$_
IT
    } for @_;
};

$function->();
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