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Re:Hidden features of Perl? by tszming on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @09:36AM (#1380212)
Most of them (if not all) are just unpopular features.
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Re:Hidden features of Perl? by telemachos on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @09:48AM (#1380242)
I would have said 'little-known' or 'not as well-known as they deserve to be', but it's a fair point.

Many of them are not really hidden so much as underused. (As I recall all of the "Hidden features of language X" questions on SO tended to drift that way pretty quickly.

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