Perlish

Perlish

English

Etymology

Perl +‎ -ish

Pronunciation

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Adjective

Perlish (comparative more Perlish, superlative most Perlish)

1. (computing, programming, informal) Typical of, or suited to, the Perl programming language.
   • 2004, Ian F Darwin, Java Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Java Developers

     Incidentally, the eval { } block around the method call is the Perlish way of catching exceptions.

   • 2005, Damian Conway, Perl Best Practices

     Second, the standard domain-specific notation you're recreating in your Perl class must conform to the Perlish precedences and associativities.

   • 2006, Jeffrey Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions

     In this chapter, I'll try to present examples in a more Perlish style of Perl.

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