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Perlish en · ADJ

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Etymology

Etymology tree English Perl Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English Perlish From Perl + -ish.

Meanings

1. (informal) Typical of, or suited to, the Perl programming language.
   • In this chapter, I'll try to present examples in a more Perlish style of Perl. 2006, Jeffrey Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions:
   • Second, the standard domain-specific notation you're recreating in your Perl class must conform to the Perlish precedences and associativities. 2005, Damian Conway, Perl Best Practices:
   • Incidentally, the eval { } block around the method call is the Perlish way of catching exceptions. 2004, Ian F Darwin, Java Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Java Developers:

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