I am learning Perl using the Llama book. The code for one of the exercises that I wrote looks completely diffrent than the answer in the book. They use a long if - elseif structure. I was wondering ig anyone could tell me if what I wrote is bad and if so then why? I wrote the following for the Chapter 10 exercise (high-low number guess game). 
#!/usr/bin/perl

#Guess a number between 1 and 100 game
$secret_number = int(1 + rand 100);

# print "secret number = $secret_number\n";  # for debugging purposes

print "_-_-_-The number guess game-_-_-_\n";

until ($guess eq $secret_number) {
    if (defined $guess) {
        my $answer =
            ($guess < $secret_number) ? "less than" :
            ($guess > $secret_number) ? "greater than" :
                            "";
    print "\nThe number you entered is $answer the secret number.\n";
    }
    print "\nEnter a number between 1 and 100 : ";
    chomp($guess = <STDIN>);
    if ($guess =~ /quit|exit|^\s*$/i) {
        $quit = "yes";
        last
    }
}

if ($quit =~ /^(yes)/) {
    print "\nToo bad... you gave up.\n"
} else {
    print "\nYay! You guessed the number correctly!\n";
}

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