What kind of syntactic sugar is available in Perl to reduce code for l/rvalue operators vs. if statements?

Question

There\'s a bunch out there, as Perl is a pretty sugary language, but the most used statements in any language is the combination of if statements and setting values. I think I\

Answer 1

There's also the left hand side ternary operator:

$cond ? $var1 : $var2 = "the value";

is equivalent to:

if ($cond) {
    $var1 = "the value";
} else {
    $var2 = "the value";
}