I'd love to see your code review if you were on my team :) We have 7 guys all coding Perl at various levels of "Beauty".

But they stick to some key rules for the sanity of the team:

• comment often - I can scan comments a lot quicker than code to get to the bit I need to work on
• indent 4 spaces - trivial, but helps a lot in terms of indentation expectations when reading nested stuff
• use common code if it exists - just plain sensible
• dereference using $var-> rather than $$var (it's just plain more readable)

Of course, not everyone sticks to all these rules, all the time - and the times that they haven't have caused real pain (well, at least for item one on the list, especially on old code)

Maybe you're old school - obscurity is job security. Wouldn't work here. If I can't drop into your code and scan a page in a couple of seconds and understand it, my job is harder, and your responsibilities would suddenly scale back ;-)

Or maybe that's just me :)

cLive ;-)