in reply to I fear my code is unreadable

Another thing you could do is to put in a comment about what the fragment of code does. I.e., something like:
# Compute the maximum width of any key or value in %lists # and add a padding. my $col_width = ...
or just take a few sentences to explain what's going on.

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Re^2: I fear my code is unreadable
by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 06, 2008 at 16:20 UTC

    ... or you could stick that fragment of code in a subroutine or method whose name describes what it does.