Don't misinterpret my previous posts either. I didn't mean to suggest that perltidy is the end all. But I do suggest that using a tool like perltidy is a much better alternative than rigid style conformance. Being able to see other people's style and learning from it can be an unheard of luxury in many work environments (at least the majority I've been exposed to). You are indeed most fortunate.

My poorly described patch rejection example didn't help. The patch in question contained less than half a dozen lines of code, which (I thought) followed the flavour of the original. I don't even know what style guides were violated, just that the reason for the patch being dropped was that it didn't conform. My patch fixed a problem I was having with URLs generated while running the application behind a proxy. I am just a casual user of the project, contributing a fix that solved a problem for me that I thought would be useful to others, nothing more.

I can say with full confidence that I would be embarrassed to show anyone the Perl code I wrote over a decade ago :)

In reply to Re^4: CPAN's perltidy to the rescue! (value) by ruzam
in thread CPAN's perltidy to the rescue! by tfredett

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