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The "Beautiful Perl features" series on dev.to continues !

Since my last announcement, the following articles have been added :

• local, for temporary changes to global variables
• trailing commas
• fat commas, a device for structuring lists

I'm still hoping to attract interest from people from other programming cultures, but so far most comments came from people already in the Perl community. Let's see what the future brings us!

The more I investigate into various programming features, the more I'm impressed by the Perl vision: the initial design and later evolution into Perl5 were incredibly innovative and coherent. Raku is even more impressive, but that's another story. Regarding Perl, I am tired of reading comments on so many platforms that the language is "ugly" and "write-only" -- this is not true! If this dev.to series can help to reverse the trend, I will be happy :-)