Interesting, for sure.  I've always favored the pithier version of: 
for my $count (0..2) {
  my $s = (1 == $count)? "": "s";
  print "$count iteration$s so far...\n";
}

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Of course, it's gotta be tweaked under certain circumstances: 
for my $cheese_eaters (0..2) {
  my $noun = (1 == $count)? "mouse": "mice";
  print "$cheese_eaters $noun so far...\n";
}

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By the way, the (<constant> == $count) is a habit I picked up from a company which had some good ideas about coding guidelines.  (It was for C, but applies to Perl as well).  The idea is that you can never accidentally write '=' instead of '==' because the compiler will detect an attempt to assign to a constant and forbid it outright.

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in thread pluralization by Vynce

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