Re^2: Perl oddities

[DentArthurDent]

Another alternative:

if ($condition) { 
   do_something(); 
}

A couple of things:

1. I've found that the braceless if can slow me down when reading C code. I have to remember that the next command is the thing that's done.
2. Cuddling the braces around their control statements saves a lot of whitespace without much loss of readability. Consider the following extension of my suggestion above:

if ($condition) {
   do_something();
} else {
   if ($another_condition) {
      do_something_else();
   } else {
      do_yet_a_third_thing();
   }
}

Just my $0.02