monkdiscuss Anonymous Monk Being a new boy to Perl I find I come across plenty of code that is so compact it is on the whole unreadable and therefore un maintainable. I know some of the people on this site do this as a purely accademic exercise, but I have seen to many people doing this for real <p> Cramming lots of characters on 1 line does not mean things will compile better <p> I have also seen people doing horrors like putting if statements after the code to be excuted . WHY <p> Here another if(!$#var) .Yes Ok I know what it does but why do it .. <p> I don't want a headace everytime I read a piece of source code. <p> Perl is a high flexible language that seems open to abuse by those who thinks its clever to write unreadable code. <p> Perl is a great tool so why missuse it? For those who think themselves clever try reading this. <p> ienjoygivingpeopleheadacesbywritinggarbageso$@%#$toyou! <p><small>Edit by [tye]</small></p> 7