Heh, no, because your "easily accomplished" clause is too broad (what's easy? what's another mechanism? does conciseness count? etc). But the example "whatever" clause in the original post is interesting and shows some features that are each either neat or horrible, depending on your point of view: * passing args without parens * implicit matching on $_ and the existence of $_ * void context and the lack of failure thereof
Anyway, I'm not here to argue for the beauty of the design of Perl, 'cause even I think it's horrible. There's certainly plenty of design and implementation sloppiness there to go around. One just has to look at the way sort works to be convinced of that (hint: it involves manipulating symbol tables).
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Date: 2009-08-13 08:01 pm (UTC)* passing args without parens
* implicit matching on $_ and the existence of $_
* void context and the lack of failure thereof
Anyway, I'm not here to argue for the beauty of the design of Perl, 'cause even I think it's horrible. There's certainly plenty of design and implementation sloppiness there to go around. One just has to look at the way sort works to be convinced of that (hint: it involves manipulating symbol tables).