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Not to answer your question but rather offer up a personal aesthetic opinion: Bleh. :)

Again not saying it's "wrong", but that just looks . . . well, wrong. :) There's all the complains that Perl is line noise and this style just adds in extra unnecessary characters in meaningless places. Semis terminate simple statements (e.g. EXPR ;), but you're placing them after constructs that are in and of themselves complete statements.

It's not as bad as this stuff, but on a scale of 1 to 10 yours raises the hackles to about a 4.5923 ("perlish" would be about a 9, just for comparison :).

Then again I work with people who insist on Whitesmiths and I haven't gone completely nutters yet so . . . :)

Again, a big disclaimer: the preceding is just opinion; good luck wrangling perltidy (you malformatting heathen :).

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Re^2: Perl Tidy Question
by dorko (Prior) on Jan 11, 2008 at 20:10 UTC
    There was a time when I thought I was the only person who used Whitesmiths. Then I found out I wasn't alone. In fact, I was in good company. But most disappointingly, I hadn't invented it.

    By the way, anybody have Perl Tidy configs that will output Whitesmiths?

    Cheers,

    Brent

    -- Yeah, I'm a Delt.
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      This is what we use to get things to our local whitesmiths-y variant (I've of course got another version that puts things back to a proper form so I can read them . . . :) 

      --nocheck-syntax
--warning-output
--maximum-line-length=78
--indent-columns=3
--continuation-indentation=3
--indent-closing-paren
--nooutdent-long-lines
--nooutdent-labels
--space-for-semicolon
--brace-left-and-indent
--brace-left-and-indent-list="if elsif else unless for foreach sub whi
+le until do continue : BEGIN END CHECK INIT AUTOLOAD DESTROY"
--paren-vertical-tightness=1
--paren-vertical-tightness-closing=1
--square-bracket-vertical-tightness=1
--square-bracket-vertical-tightness-closing=1
--brace-vertical-tightness=1
--brace-vertical-tightness-closing=1
--line-up-parentheses
--break-at-old-comma-breakpoints
--long-block-line-count=2
--maximum-consecutive-blank-lines=2
-wbb="% + - * / x != == >= <= =~ !~ < > | & >= < = **= += *= &= <<= &&
+= -= /= |= >>= ||= .= %= ^= x="

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        Without a doubt, this is better than anything I could have come up with. Thank you for sharing.

        Cheers,

        Brent

        -- Yeah, I'm a Delt.
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