Yeah, I remember the ternary iffrom C; didn't use it very much. I'd rather write code that a new developer can read slightly more englishly, and the braces, newlines, and indentation give a fair bit of intuition to where the code is going.

I know I carry a lot of that prejudice into my Perl, but I rarely get complaints about my Perl being unreadable (only my variable names, which I staunchly continue to lay out in my peculiar 3x2 format -- but the code itself almost never gets complaints).