I like the natural flow of statements with the conditional at the end, but I'm having some difficulty understanding how it relates to order of operations, since if/unless/etc aren't listed in the Operator Precedence table (http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Operator-Precedence-and-Associativity) For example code like: 
my $message = "Congrats" unless not defined $reward;

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or 
my @badVals;
for my $val (@vals){
  push @badVals, $val && next if isBad($val);
  print "$val is a good val.\n";
}

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I would love to write these without parentheses because it's so nice to read, but I'm concerned about ambiguity. Wondering if you have any tips so I can try to at least get halfway there without danger... overall I'm curious about best practices for these kinds of statements.

In reply to order of operations with conditionals at the end by BeneSphinx

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