What is Beauty ?, I don't know, I want to look for beauty in code effeciency,
as well as how the code looks.

Example: I need know if a specific element is in a list, I could do: 
print "Found it!\n" if (grep {/^I_am_looking_for_this$/o} @List);

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Sweet, short, and simple...

Yet, I do not like it... I forgot to mention that my list consists of 100_000
elements, what if 'I_am_looking_for_this' was the second one ? ...

2nd approach:
my $Found=0;
for (@List)
{
 if (/^I_am_looking_for_this$/o)
 {
  $Found=1;
  last;
 };
};

print "Found it!\n" if $Found;

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Hmmmmm... effective, though I don't like it, it's a hell of a lot of code,
but it will probably be faster than the first example.

Now, if I were gonna do this a lot more, I would prefer a sub: 

sub IsInThere(@)
{
 for (@_) {return 1 if /^I_am_looking_for_this$/o}
 return 0;
};

print "Found it!\n" if IsInThere(@List);

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I don't know what real beauty is, I know that I can like something I see, and reason
for efficiency...

I like to code... I like it a lot...

Thank you all for listening...

I would have used a hash by the way ;)

GreetZ!,

print "profeth still\n" if /bird|devil/;

In reply to Beauty is in the eye of the beholder by ChOas

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