Perl often maps to human language. Created by a linguist, not a Comp-Sci guy. So I don't think you CAN have a single line like that.

It seems that some developers tend to think in terms of data structures and others in terms of languistics. Perl is probably the further side of the linguistic side. I lean toward the data structure personality, with tables being my fav "data structure". OO fans tend to be liguistical in my experience.