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• Perl has too much punctuation at the best of times

• If you're not careful, it will get out of control

      59        print $x1,"\-\>",$x2,"\n";

• Avoid Excess Punctuation is particularly important

• Compare:

                print "$s->$d\n";

• Use Interpolation Instead of Operators

• We reduced that line from 15 to 8 punctuation characters

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