I guess one way to try and quantify this would be to think back at how much time was spent trying to remember what your intention was for various pieces of code before you then had to go and explain that same code to junior members of your team.
Yes, but that falls in the category "don't use needlessly complicated algorithms". Useful, but hard to codify in a standard, and usually absent in any list of coding standard bullet points. Impossible to catch with Perl::Critic.

My rant is against silly things as putting in a standard than you should use 3 spaces for indentation, or 4. Surely you haven't spend much time explaining code to junior members who struggled with the fact someone used 4 spaces in an indent, and not 3?

In reply to Re^3: Seeking Best Practices - does your company follow a standard? by JavaFan
in thread Seeking Best Practices - does your company follow a standard? by meraxes

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