Nah, barely. The line of code just shows what Perl is good at: using minimalist building blocks, combining into something actually meaningful.

In itself, the ternary operator ?: is not so surprising. It makes its appearance in many languages, such as C, C++, C# (I believe), Obj-C (I believe), Java (I believe), JavaScript, and likely many more.

Statement modifiers also aren't very mention-worthy, in that many languages in the C-family allow you to

if (THIS)
    THAT;
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Whereas Perl requires the curly braces around it:

if (THIS) {
    THAT;
}
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But not if you write it as

THAT if THIS;
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So statement modifiers are just one of those things in Perl's syntax that make Perl Perl, however it's not something we don't know in one form or another from other languages.