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

by Anonymous Monk
on Oct 17, 2012 at 08:11 UTC ( [id://999479]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


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 :)

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Re^4: 78/80 chars perl line still a meaningful rule
by McA (Priest) on Oct 17, 2012 at 08:24 UTC

    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

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