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Empty `if` or `else` blocks

        $choice = <STDIN>;
        chomp $choice;
        mailatt() if $choice =~ /^y/i;

14 lines become 3
I bet you folks think these kinds of examples are unusual
That perhaps I carefully selected the very worst of the worst
I didn't
I found 72 examples of empty if blocks in ten minutes
This was the third one

I haven't looked at the other 69 yet
Some of them are probably even worse

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