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No, I was not golfing. You're right that it could do with just a hint more punctuation - grep BLOCK would be better than grep EXPR here.
I disagree that it's hard to understand - only if you've never seen that grep idiom before. Personally I use it all the time, so I don't even have to think about it when I read one anymore.
I do think it reads naturally:
Ask for a database type (default is mysql).
Say "Sorry", then try again
if you can't find an entry like the requested database in the list of databases.
I like to choose my code structure so that it maps as closely to a natural language description of what it's trying to do as possible.
In contrast, I'd never use your no-block example because it violates that principle.
Makeshifts last the longest.
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