Re^2: Best practices and any way to have Perl Tidy clean it up

[walkingthecow]

Alright, assuming Perl Tidy cannot do this, then my next question is, what are the best practices for object parameters? For example:

my $blah=$ldap->new(
PARAM1 => $param1,
PARAM2 => $param2,
PARAM3 => $param3,
);

or:

my Ssth = $dbh->prepare(
"SELECT * FROM DATABASE
WHERE name = '$name'
AND money = '$money'
AND field = '$field'
");

I'm trying to get a feel for how deal with this formatting. Amount of spaces for what's within the parentheses; do the parentheses line up? And so on. I know it's a rather stupid question, but after all these years it's something that is still bothering me. I format everything else beautifully, but when it comes to this I have always been rather clueless.

[fishmonger]

Since this is for the most part a personal preference there is no single correct answer, but my choice of formatting usually goes like this:


my Ssth = $dbh->prepare(q(
                    SELECT *
                    FROM DATABASE
                    WHERE name  = ?
                      AND money = ?
                      AND field = ?
));

$sth->execute($name, $money, $field);

[hdb]

To be honest, I place the parantheses like you do, and leave the rest to Emacs' Perl mode.

[LanX]

Additionally cperl-mode has a command to wrap long regions mapped on M-q plus an extra cperl-fill-paragraph command for comments.

I rarely use perl-tidy, emacs has almost all of it included.

And this kind of formatting can at best be semi-automatic since human monitoring is needed.