Re^2: Best practices and any way to have Perl Tidy clean it up

Alright, assuming Perl Tidy cannot do this, then my next question is, what are the best practices for object parameters? For example:


my $blah=$ldap->new(
PARAM1 => $param1,
PARAM2 => $param2,
PARAM3 => $param3,
);
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or:

my Ssth = $dbh->prepare(
"SELECT * FROM DATABASE
WHERE name = '$name'
AND money = '$money'
AND field = '$field'
");
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I'm trying to get a feel for how deal with this formatting. Amount of spaces for what's within the parentheses; do the parentheses line up? And so on. I know it's a rather stupid question, but after all these years it's something that is still bothering me. I format everything else beautifully, but when it comes to this I have always been rather clueless.

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Re^3: Best practices and any way to have Perl Tidy clean it up by fishmonger (Chaplain) on Apr 13, 2013 at 14:47 UTC
Since this is for the most part a personal preference there is no single correct answer, but my choice of formatting usually goes like this: `my Ssth = $dbh->prepare(q( SELECT * FROM DATABASE WHERE name = ? AND money = ? AND field = ? )); $sth->execute($name, $money, $field);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Best practices and any way to have Perl Tidy clean it up by hdb (Monsignor) on Apr 13, 2013 at 14:37 UTC
To be honest, I place the parantheses like you do, and leave the rest to Emacs' Perl mode.	[reply]
Re^4: Best practices and any way to have Perl Tidy clean it up by LanX (Saint) on Apr 13, 2013 at 14:56 UTC
Additionally cperl-mode has a command to wrap long regions mapped on M-q plus an extra `cperl-fill-paragraph` command for comments. I rarely use perl-tidy, emacs has almost all of it included. And this kind of formatting can at best be semi-automatic since human monitoring is needed. Cheers Rolf ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)	[reply] [d/l]