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Re^2: Code Maintainability

by TGI (Parson)
on Dec 04, 2008 at 18:56 UTC ( [id://728063]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Code Maintainability
in thread Code Maintainability

I like statement modifiers at the end for simple things like an early return, or throwing an exception. To handle longer lines I use indention:

die 'Detailed error messages are important, especially when this error + happens' if $oops;

But with the long exception you showed I might do:

Exception::Of::Doom->throw( error => 'Detailed error messages are important, especially when t +his error happens', ) if $oops;

I often hear that switching the order is difficult and that it is a good reason not to use the trailing conditional. In practice, I haven't found that switching the conditional around to be that onerous. A good text editor makes it easy. If switching was so hard you would see more of this:

do { turn_green(); throw_up(); die "Ach, food poisoning"; ) if $ptomaine;


TGI says moo

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