Yes and no. If the logic gets torturous I find it better just to create a table even if it is almost wholly repetitive. If it is large (or small), if most entries are the same or even empty. Perl doesn’t mind tedious.
As soon as there are nots, ors and ands and they start nesting and cascading all over the place I’m certain, nay, guaranteed, to get it wrong. I find it hard to write, the bugs hard to find and they are most often the sort of bugs that appear six months down the line. Did I mention my boolean algebra is weak?
If it is appropriate and I can fit the logic into a table I get on much better, it is all reduced to a lookup. If it is not appropriate then yours is the way to go. What is appropriate, of course, is a matter of taste. :-)
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