Re^2: How it works?

[Your Mother]

Your explanation is perfect—aces—but I assert that $array[rand@array] is a perfectly cromulent Perl idiom and if we are writing our Perl code for Pythonistas, PHPeepers, Javatards, and Ruby fanbois… That sucks the love of being JAPH right out.

[shmem]

Assertion approved. I've been working at a shop where coding standard demanded me to write perl like shell, and worse. No (key => $value) x !! $flag in hash constructors, no statement modifiers, no nested expressions like $array[rand@array] and else. Never, ever, unless. Yuck.