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in thread perlstyle - Unclear wording

Doesn’t that make it a strangely particular style rule, though? It doesn’t make sense for someone like me who spaces all parens anyway, as in:

( ( $a || $b ) && ( $c || $d ) )

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And it looks weirdly out of place in code of someone who doesn’t, as in:

(($a || $b) && ($c || $d) )

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Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^4: perlstyle - Unclear wording
by thor (Priest) on Nov 18, 2005 at 16:01 UTC
    In the same vein, the following points from perlstyle don't make sense for me:
    • Be consistent.
    • Be nice.
    as I am neither. :-) perlstyle is a list of suggestions, not rules. If you like to put spaces around all of your parentheses, then you're obeying the rule by default. If someone follows the second style, they have a couple of choices; they can ignore the "rule" altogether or they can put a space after the far left opening parenthesis (which is what I do, incidentally). I agree that the docs might be cleaned up a little bit with a simple example.

    thor

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    Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will
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