Coding style is very much a matter of personal preference. For instance, I think perlstyle says you should omit the last ; in a block. Personally I disagree - if you add some code after that line later, it generates a syntax error unless you spot it and change it. But that might just be me.....

Having maintained other peoples code for far too many years, the one thing I would say is comment. Lots and lots of comment. Not just:

#this bit does xyz
sub xyz....

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which can be difficult to see in a long script, but

#######################################
# subroutine xyz - does xyz, abc, zz plural z alpha
#######################################
sub xyz..

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Or your own personal variant of it. Also, give variables reasonably explanatory names, and make fairly liberal use of whitespace.

Those would be my suggestions anyway. Why not post a code snippet and let the monks bitch about it? :-)

charles.

Addendum: applause for wanting to make your code easier to read though - most people wouldn't bother!

In reply to Re: improving the aesthetics of perl code by g0n
in thread improving the aesthetics of perl code by tcf03

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