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

With all due respect to Damian Conway and to his absolutely excellent book (whose recommendations I do follow on a number of items, well, most of them), and I certainly don't claim to challenge his authority, I still have to disagree.

The line length and the tab recommendations are, to say the least, debatable (at least in my view).

I had dinner last Monday with Curtis "Ovid" Poe and brian de foy in Paris (social setting with the Perl Mongers in Paris), and we discussed briefly these matters, my feeling is that both of them agreed that using spaces rather than tabs is not the best idea.

To brian and Curtis: if I misrepresented what you said in any way (I don't think I did, but just in case), sorry about that, I did not mean that.

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Re^3: Best practices and any way to have Perl Tidy clean it up by kcott (Archbishop) on Apr 13, 2013 at 23:10 UTC
I wasn't advocating the use of any of those recommendations. This was merely a response to the OP's request: "... wondering what the Perl Best Practices are ...". These are just those I thought applicable to the situation at hand; there may be others. For what it's worth, I don't use Line Lengths but I do use Indentation and Tabs; I don't recall ever using Multiline Strings (but it seems sensible enough); I do use heredocs and theredocs; I don't use perltidy. -- Ken	[reply]
Re^4: Best practices and any way to have Perl Tidy clean it up by topher (Scribe) on Apr 17, 2013 at 05:24 UTC
Out of curiosity, do you know what their objections to indenting with spaces was? I've always found it significantly more reliable and manageable than using tabs. I'd be curious about arguments to the contrary. Christopher Cashell	[reply]
Re^5: Best practices and any way to have Perl Tidy clean it up by kcott (Archbishop) on Apr 17, 2013 at 06:11 UTC
PBP advocates using spaces, so their objection, such as it is, is to the use of tabs. The Tabs best practice is one that I use: no "arguments to the contrary" from me. I'm sure others with different preferences will provide their views on the subject. -- Ken	[reply]
Re^6: Best practices and any way to have Perl Tidy clean it up by topher (Scribe) on Apr 17, 2013 at 06:17 UTC
My apologies. I'd meant to post my query to the parent of your post. Christopher Cashell	[reply]
Re^7: Best practices and any way to have Perl Tidy clean it up by kcott (Archbishop) on Apr 17, 2013 at 06:48 UTC
Re^3: Best practices and any way to have Perl Tidy clean it up by topher (Scribe) on Apr 17, 2013 at 06:20 UTC
my feeling is that both of them agreed that using spaces rather than tabs is not the best idea Out of curiosity, do you know what their objections to indenting with spaces was? Or what the advantages of tabs are? I've always found spaces to be more reliable and manageable than using tabs. I'd be curious about arguments to the contrary. Christopher Cashell	[reply]


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