No mantra for me, that would ruin my music :)

I always try to keep these in mind:

• use strict; (A year ago, I wouldn't have said so, but -w and strict have become very close friends :)
• Use modules when appropriate (but not always - I still prefer using simple regexes)
• Think about modularity. Even for very simple tasks, I tend to make an OO module these days, and it really helps to clarify my code and to refactor where possible
• Order is important. I use guards (return unless ...;) instead of nested ifs (if (...) { ... } else { return }) if possible
• Indent, Indent, Indent, Indent :)

2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$
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