I disagree that ugly0 and ugly1 really are ugly. ugly0 is just list assignment syntax. ugly1 is just recognition that we need a return value from the map block. And in my mind, the only abuse of map, is when you use it in void context or throw away the return value(s).

Having said that, your example does not so much look like a pipeline to me. It looks more like a succession of operations:

my  $sBegin = "hello world";
my  $sEnd   = do {
  local $_ = $sBegin;
  s/hello/goodbye/g;
  s/world/todo el mondo/;
  uc;
};

print $sEnd;

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When the only tool you have is map, every problem looks like a pipeline?

print "Just another Perl ${\(trickster and hacker)},"
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In reply to Re: Confessions of a back-alley map abuser by Sidhekin
in thread Confessions of a back-alley map abuser by dimar

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