Anything that relies on Mk I eyeball to ensure braces match is doomed to fail, or at least consume to a great deal of time. It is much better to use a syntax highlighting editor with smart indentation. However any such assertion will raise someone's hackles.

At the end of the day it generally comes down to what works for you. Note though that often "what works for you" is really "what works of the team" or "what works for the community". In the case of Perl "what works for the community" is K&R indentation with a four space indent.

Especially for Perl (due to the excellent Perl::Tidy) a good answer can be to use a pretty printer to normalise code for "public" consumption, and even to renormalise code for personal use.

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re^2: Correct code for deleting old file? by GrandFather
in thread Correct code for deleting old file? by markuswinter

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