Yes, many of the "tricks" are Perl-esque. But #16 is a good one — I like one liners but after reading I looked through the code base in one of my projects and

Yes, many of the "tricks" are Perl-esque. But #16 is a good one — I like one liners but after reading I looked through the code base in one of my projects and sure enough, explicit true/false was spelled out in methods returning booleans... (rand < event_prob) ? true : false Shorter and sweeter... (rand < event_prob) As opposed to the hideous... if event_prob return true else return false end