> I am not (and never was) religious about it:

I mostly agree with you, I have to adapt to the style of my client.

As a funny side effect, we can mostly tell who made a change just by looking at the style.

Like one of my colleagues prefers qq~...~ for multi-line SQL and I always use heredocs like <<"__SQL__";

> and configured my editor to help me doing so

could you please share your settings? I find configuring layout settings quite tedious and frustrating, because the cross-influences make it a try and error game.

More so if perltidy is also involved and I can see my code flip-flop-ing between different settings. And also configuring perltidy is no fun...

In the end I stopped using perltidy and configured my emacs to auto-indent the surrounding expression/block with every typed semicolon.

Like that I get life formatting without needing to think (and it's much faster than shelling out to a restarted perltidy)

But of course this isn't as feature rich as perltidy, so I'd like to become "compatible" no matter which style.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^2: How has your coding style changed over the years? by LanX
in thread How has your coding style changed over the years? by stevieb

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