Related to the sample Aristotle gave above. Here's a CGI snippet that shows a way to handle the field/error reporting without naming them with variables at all.

The logic of the sample is not good for a real CGI but the technique itself works great and I get to show the serial comma function again. :) 

#!/usr/bin/perl
#=========================================================
use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
#=========================================================
print header(), start_html(), start_form();

my @param_names = qw( title address description );

my @missing = grep { not param($_) } @param_names;

if ( param('submitted') and @missing ) {
    print 
        "Please fill in: ", 
        i({-style=>'color:#A00;'},
          serial(@missing) . '.'
        );
}

for my $field ( @param_names  ) {
    print p(
            b($field),
            textfield(-name => $field )
            );
}

print submit(-name=>'submitted');
print end_form(), end_html();

exit 0;
#=========================================================
sub serial {
    join(', ', @_[0..$#_-1]) . 
        (@_>2 ? ',':'' ) . 
        (@_>1 ? (' and ' . $_[-1]) : $_[-1]);
}

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