If you are interested about coding style, you may have a look at:
http://wwwcn.cern.ch/dci/perl/pod/perlstyle.html
and other pointers under:
http://wwwcn.cern.ch/dci/perl/welcome.html
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Dave Wolfe wrote:
> [ Brent Chapman writes: ]
> >
> > In all seriousness, though, there is a code maintenance principle
> > that, when working on existing programs, you code in the style they
> > were written in, even if that's not precisely your own style.
>
> In general, I concur with Brent on the principle of using the context
> style, and do try to adhere to it when I can, but I also believe this
> holds true for using the context language, and that principle overrides
> the context style principle. For example, if previous authors appear
> to be trying to write in C using Perl, I feel I'm more than justified
> in using Perl constructs rather than rigidly adhering to C constructs
> expressed in Perl. For that reason I will usually write:
>
> print qq(File is "$burfl"\n) unless defined $foo;
>
> instead of:
>
> if (!defined($foo)) {
> print("File is \"$burfl\"\n");
> }
>
> (or any whitespaced variants.)
>
> --
> Dave Wolfe
>
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