How about the value of verbosity?
$ perl -we '
use strict;
my @array=(1,2);
my $matches = 0;
for my $ea (1..3) {
$matches = grep {
printf("idx: %d, val: %d == %d? %3s, ",
$_, $array[$_], $ea, ($array[$_] == $ea) ? "YES" : "NO");
$array[$_] == $ea;
} (0..$#array);
print "matches: $matches\n";
}
'
__output__
idx: 0, val: 1 == 1? YES, idx: 1, val: 2 == 1? NO, matches: 1
idx: 0, val: 1 == 2? NO, idx: 1, val: 2 == 2? YES, matches: 1
idx: 0, val: 1 == 3? NO, idx: 1, val: 2 == 3? NO, matches: 0
and who ever said Perl was not readable... :)