I also have a question on Perl::Tidy's formatting, one complaint I have is the new line for else statements. So a if/else statement that looks like this: 

if ( $foo eq 'bar' ) {
    # Do something
} else {
    # Do something else
}

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Which in my option is perfectly readable becomes this once ran through Perl::Tidy: 
if ( $foo eq 'bar' ) {
    # Do something
}
else {
    # Do something else
}

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I don't quite get the reason for breaking the else statement in such a way and if there is a way to tell it not to do such, I may have over looked it when reading through the man for it, please let me know. Also if there is some really good reason why Perl::Tidy would default to doing this that is considered best practice and doesn't cause Perl::Critic on its most brutal setting to complain about it please enlighten me.

In reply to Re: Perl::Tidy formatting question by vendion
in thread Perl::Tidy formatting question by pukku

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