POD SHOULD not be interleaved with the code, and is not an alternative for comments.

Does this include POD put before subroutines? Such as:

=item foo

  foo $arg1

Does foo
=cut
sub foo 
{
    ...
}

=item bar

  bar $foo

Does bar
=cut
sub bar 
{
    ...
}

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Variables with a small scope SHOULD have short names, variables with a broad scope SHOULD have descriptive names.

Heh, there was a guy in my high school C++ class who declared all his counter variables as globals, and he used a different var for every loop. The entire bloody alphabet was at the top of every code file he wrote.

Constants (or variables intended to be constant) . . .

Is there any execuse for not doing "use constant ..."?

No cuddled elses or elsifs . . .

Cuddled?

Indents SHOULD be 4 spaces wide. Indents MUST NOT contain tabs.

Where's my flame thrower? :)

In reply to Re: My coding guidelines by hardburn
in thread My coding guidelines by Abigail-II

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