Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

[Abigail]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 07:46:52AM +0200, Richard Foley wrote:
> I've found a lot of German programmers very uncomfortable with the "unless" 
> keyword, (or maybe it's just c programmers).  They appear to very often prefer 
> to use a construct of the form:
> 
> 	if ( !something ) { ...
> 
> Even worse is:
> 
> 	unless ( !something ) { ...
> 
> The brain just into tailspin goes.


    unless (!something) {
       ...
    }
    else {
       ...     # Unless not something isn't true.
    }



Abigail