Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding. - Larry Wall

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture.

But I'm not here to talk about postmodernism. I tried to do that last spring, and afterwards I was thoroughly deconstructed by the deconstructionists for attempting to deconstruct deconstructionism. At least, that's the construction I put on their construction of it. I was talking about postmodern culture, and they thought I was talking about postmodern literature. Not at all the same thing!