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Perlish

Perlish adjective: typical of, or suited to, the Perl programming language.

Adjective

Perlish (comparative more Perlish, superlative most Perlish)

  1. (informal) Typical of, or suited to, the Perl programming language.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of Perlish

comparativemore Perlish
superlativemost Perlish

Origin of Perlish

From Perl + -ish.

Questions about Perlish

What does Perlish mean?
Perlish means typical of, or suited to, the Perl programming language.
What part of speech is Perlish?
Perlish is an adjective.

Words near Perlish in the dictionary

  1. perlieus
  2. perlin
  3. Perlin noise
  4. perlins
  5. Perlis
  6. Perlish
  7. perlite
  8. perlites
  9. perlitic
  10. Perlman
  11. Perlman syndrome

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