The current behavior is a good default, since stacked parens doesn't mean that all data is on the same depth (see discoverX ) and yes perltidy doesn't seem to have any finer control about data indentation.

$ perltidy -st -sct -sot tsttdy.pl
sub discoverX {
    return [ {
            'name'    => $name,
            'version' => $VERSION,
        },
        [ 1, 2, 3 ] ];
}

sub discover1 {
    return {
        'name'    => $name,
        'version' => $VERSION,
    };
}

sub discover2 {
    return [ {
            'name'    => $name,
            'version' => $VERSION,
        } ];
}

sub discover3 {
    return [ [ {
                'name'    => $name,
                'version' => $VERSION,
            } ] ];
}

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For what it's worth emacs has an option to calculate the indentation relative from the last statement:

sub discoverX {
    return [{
        'name' => $name,
        'version' => $VERSION,
    },
        [1,2,3]
   ];
}

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Maybe you want to propose this feature to the maintainer?

I'm not too convinced. But YMMV ...

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

In reply to Re: Perltidy indents too much when there are stacked opening tokens by LanX
in thread Perltidy indents too much when there are stacked opening tokens by will_

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