It has been said that the perl style is:

if ( some condition ) {
  print "It's true\n";
} else {
  print "It's false\n";
}
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I think a far more readable style would be:

if ( some condition ) {
  print "It's true\n";
} 
else {
  print "It's false\n";
}
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Why am I proposing such a heretical thing, with the "else" starting on a line by itself, and being indented the same as its matching "if"? Simple - extend the statement to:

if    ( Some condition 1 ) {
  print "First case\n";
} 
elsif ( Some condition 2) {
  print "Second case\n";
}
else {
  print "Default case\n";
}
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See - each clause of the compount if-elsif-else structure is logically (imho) aligned.