This doesn't really address the meat of the topic, but perltidy saves me tons of time with reformatting code.

It's also handy at pinpointing nesting errors.

Lastly, it supports several types of bracing, and can translate back and forth. This way you can support one type of production code, but everyone can code how they want to.

( --opening-brace-on-new-line, --brace-left-and-indent,--opening-brace-always-on-right, etc)