The say feature in Perl

print with the newline built in, switched on by a feature pragma.

use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';

# say is print with the newline built in
say "no trailing newline needed";

my @scores = (88, 94, 71);
say "scores: @scores";
say "high: ", (sort { $b <=> $a } @scores)[0];

say for map { "item $_" } 1 .. 3;

How it works

use feature 'say' enables the keyword on Perl 5.10 and later.
say interpolates like print but always ends the line for you.
With no argument it prints $_, so say for map makes a tidy list.

Keywords and builtins used here

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