Re^3: 78/80 chars perl line still a meaningful rule

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to Re^2: 78/80 chars perl line still a meaningful rule
in thread 78/80 chars perl line still a meaningful rule

perltidy does

confess
    "Insufficent data in X from {hash lookup} through {hash lookup} so
+urce data file {hash lookup}"
    unless $condition;

which seems reasonable, although these days I prefer "condition or" to "unless"

$condition
  or confess
"Insufficent data in X from {hash lookup} through {hash lookup} source
+ data file {hash lookup}";

I've tried my hand at concatenation

$condition
    or confess "Insufficent data in X from {hash lookup} "
    . "through {hash lookup} source data file {hash lookup}";

And I it is pleasing to the eye, but I wouldn't do that by hand typing (editor IDE should handle it automagically). This also makes searching source code slightly more keyboard clicks but its not a deal breaker for me.

I also like

$condition
  or confessn "Insufficent data in X from {hash lookup}
through {hash lookup} source data file {hash lookup}";

where confessn would do some newline squashing

But mostly I just let it go past 80 chars cause is the least hassle and works with all editors :)

[McA]

Is it only me, but I think personally that the perltidy solution looks really ugly. The manual splitting looks best in my eyes, but exactly this is cumbersome.

Better solutions desired... ;-)

Best regards
McA