A moral. Saying that given idiom is natural to Perl programmers is dangerous. TIMTOWTDI, and the ways that you are used to people using Perl may not be used by others.

Personally the only time I intentionally use the short ciruiting behaviour of && or || as conditionals is within a condition of an if. ie I will write: 

if ($cond_1 && $cond_2) {
  # Do something
}

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which I (of course) don't think about in the same way that I would in a different context. Instead I (like tachyon) use the: 
  print if /match/;

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form because I like the way it reads better.

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: Spoken Perl: and && or what? by tilly
in thread Spoken Perl: and || && or what? by Zaxo

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