Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.