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Perl Best Practices (chapter 6; don't have dead tree version handy so no clue on a page number) recommends laying chained ternary expressions out as a table. If you squint it almost looks haskelly.

           # Name format...                            # Salutation...
my $salute = $name eq $EMPTY_STR                       ? 'Dear Custome
+r'
           : $name =~ m/ \A((?:Sir|Dame) \s+ \S+) /xms ? "Dear $1"
           : $name =~ m/ (.*), \s+ Ph[.]?D \z     /xms ? "Dear Dr $1"
           :                                             "Dear $name" 
+          ;
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The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.

In reply to Re^2: How to get 0 to initialize a value by Fletch
in thread How to get 0 to initialize a value by Lady_Aleena

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