...and cuddle my elses

I think if you look at perlstyle you'll see that they encourage not cuddling your elses. I'd imagine that the reason is (this is the reason I don't like cuddled elses anyway) that the "if" doesn't line up with the "else". Example.. 

# cuddled - I feel that it's harder to read.
    if ($foo) {
        if ($bar) {
            print "We have a foo and a bar.\n";
        } else {
            print "We have a foo.\n";
        }
    } else {
        print "You have no foo.\n;
    }

#uncuddled - one way (the way I use)
    if ($foo) {
        if ($bar) {
            print "We have a foo and a bar.\n";
        } 
        else {
            print "We have a foo.\n";
        }
    } 
    else {
        print "You have no foo.\n;
    }

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update: as dragonchild and MeowChow point out, this is still something that people don't agree on. Some people write their elses (and subs for that matter) as MeowChow has shown. That's why I mentioned that my example was "one way". I just wanted to point out that you might have misread perlstyle

In reply to Re: best practice by rchiav
in thread best practice by George_Sherston

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