In the same vein, the following points from
perlstyle don't make sense for me:
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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