Re^3: Perl oddities

I would argue that if the condition is "really long and boring", then it is *more* important to have braces and whitespace so it is easier to see where the actual action being taken is at a glance. The only one you mention that could work for me is:

do_something_useful()
    if really_long_and_boring_condition;
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Unfortunately, that's at the expense of putting the cart before the horse IMHO. The action doesn't matter if the condition is not satisfied.

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Re^4: Perl oddities by PhilHibbs (Hermit) on Mar 21, 2005 at 17:39 UTC
When I see "`die if (long && complicated condition)`" I know that I can stop reading the condition, because it's an error check and therefore probably not interesting to me. Or, if it says "`$name = $1 if /long and complicated regex/;`" then I can skip over the regex because I know what it's doing.	[reply]