I would not think myself as experienced enough to give well advice, what i learned so far:
Try to write the code the way that others might understand it fast (maybe you find someone who could reread and comment ...).
Read the code a few days later (or weeks) and if you understand it fast thats a good sign.
Use alot of Comments especially on "more complicated code blocks". I try to add a few comment lines at top of the Script to explain to people not knowing perl what my script is doing (or should do ;-)), so these people could know if it might be safe to run it ...(for the sysadmin colleagues ...)
I am no friend of the many "cryptic shortcuts" on perl if the choice is there maybe write a little more if it is better understandable.
Warnings should be generally enabled.
Is a must, since it doesnt "exit|break" like strict.
I am not a friend "of strict using strict" (but you could disable on some code blocks if you want to use it, sometimes i think it makes life a little too hard esp. with $_. But on bigger projects it might help with some common errors, for smaller code snippets its "overkill" i think. So i wouldnt blame people for not using strict ...) Just my 2ct.

In reply to Re: Help with Coding Style by matze77
in thread Help with Coding Style by Seij

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