use of the ternary for simple conditionals is a handy trick to have up your sleeve.

I'd worry about having a grasp of the language (context, syntax) before worrying about micro-optimizations

-MO=Deparse,-p says 

use Benchmark (':all');
my($foo, $bar);
cmpthese((-1), {'ternary', sub {
    ((int(rand(2)) ? ($foo = 1) : $bar) = 1);
}
, 'if_else', sub {
    if (int(rand(2))) {
        ($foo = 1);
    }
    else {
        ($bar = 1);
    }
}
});

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More clearly  ((int(rand(2)) ? ($foo = 1) : $bar) = 1);

is 

(
  (
   int(rand(2))
   ? ($foo = 1)
   : $bar
  ) = 1
);

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which is an error

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in thread new way to code html? by Don Coyote

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