I would respectfully disagree on some points and hopefully we can agree on the main point.

I dunno what got my brain working on the ternary operator idea, maybe it was the "and" or "&&" stuff? (no pun intended). I normally don't use this syntax in Perl code.

The main point here is that this is a simple "if","else" condition, not a more complex construction with "and" and "next". That's it! That concept is stunning in its simplicity.

 # I think the if/else is better and I think
 # we agree on that. The if/else can be written like this, but
 # nobody cares! Let's just stop talking about it!
 # It simply does NOT matter. We are beating a dead horse if
 # we worry about this:
 #  /no_proc/ ? print "$_\n" 
 #            : print "$_ : in proc\n" ;  
 #
 
 # some very few extra parens results in this:
 # It is crystal clear, there are no "ands, nexts"
 # that is the MAIN point!
 #
 if (/no_proc/)
 {
     print "$_\n";
 }
 else
 {
     print "$_ : in proc\n" ;  
 }
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