Not that long ago I thought of a trivial style change that I rather like. Instead of using strict at the top of my modules, and then having to declare vars like @ISA and @EXPORT_OK for things that I only want in my header, put strict at the end of my header section and drop the declaration.

So where I used to write: 

package Foo;
use strict;
use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT_OK);
@ISA = 'Bar';
@EXPORT_OK = qw(great stuff);

# etc

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I now write: 
package Foo;
@ISA = 'Bar';
@EXPORT_OK = qw(great stuff);
use strict;

# etc

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So are there any other useful style tips that people have lying around?

In reply to Trivial style ideas by tilly

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