in reply to Perl interpretor for conditional operator "?"

If you run this script with warnings turned on, you would have been given a "Possible attempt to separate words with commas at ..." warning for the @x= qw(a,b,c) and @y=qw(c,d,e) lines.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom