in reply to Re: Code Maintainability
in thread Code Maintainability
I like statement modifiers at the end for simple things like an early return, or throwing an exception. To handle longer lines I use indention:
die 'Detailed error messages are important, especially when this error + happens' if $oops;
But with the long exception you showed I might do:
Exception::Of::Doom->throw( error => 'Detailed error messages are important, especially when t +his error happens', ) if $oops;
I often hear that switching the order is difficult and that it is a good reason not to use the trailing conditional. In practice, I haven't found that switching the conditional around to be that onerous. A good text editor makes it easy. If switching was so hard you would see more of this:
do { turn_green(); throw_up(); die "Ach, food poisoning"; ) if $ptomaine;
TGI says moo
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