You can't say "this code is beautiful". People can agree or not. There is not a concensus at all.

Perl is a very flexive language. The main reason is because Larry studied linguistics. That means he know Natural language is flexible which makes texts easier (or not) to read. The truth is that two different people write the same idea on Natural language in two different ways. Perl is the same.

Some example of linguistics constructions: 

 open FILE, ">foo" or die "Can't open file foo\n";

 $a = 1 unless $a;

 print $a foreach @b;

Hope this helps you out.

Alberto Simões

In reply to Re: Beautiful Perl by ambs
in thread Beautiful Perl by BrentDax

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