Perlish

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Typical of, or suited to, the Perl programming language. informal

    "Incidentally, the eval { } block around the method call is the Perlish way of catching exceptions."

Example

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"Incidentally, the eval { } block around the method call is the Perlish way of catching exceptions."

Etymology

From Perl + -ish.

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