I think the answer is that generally they don't. If someone wants to share Perl code with me then I expect to see it in a plain text file with a .pl extension. Why? Because we each have a favourite way of looking at code. We have colours that we prefer and we have apreentation style that we prefer and generally our own personal environment is set up to work that way. Within my IDE of choice (ActiveState Komodo as it happens) I have set up Perl Tidy to format things just the way I like it.

If I want a hard copy, then I will print it the way _I_ like it.

Besides, in the end any coder you send code to wants to set it up for his environment and run it himself. I know I do, so sending me code to look at in such a way that I cannot execute it simply guarantaees that it will hit the recycle bin even more quickly than it might otherwise.

jdtoronto