How can I add all the numbers in an array with out doing a foreach loop?

draco_iii has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: ⭐ (arrays)

That is, I want to avoid having to write any kind of explicit loop, such as:

my $sum = 0;
for ( @numbers ) {
    $sum += $_;
}
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I'd rather do it in a single statement. Of course, I could wrap the above in a sub, but are there any better ways?

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