Laufeyjarson writes…

Lists need to be formatted to be readable.  The suggestion is to always use parenthesis, indent after a parenthesis, and line things in columns, all with trailing commas.

The book provides clear examples, which I won’t duplicate here. (more…)

The book talks about how confusing the ternary operator can be and how much of a mess it can make.  I’m almost surprised it doesn’t say, “Don’t use it.”

It suggests columns instead, with the condition, then the positive result.

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The  PBP suggests breaking assignments much like it suggests breaking other operators; the assignment leads the broken line:

my $thingy

= $stuff + $hard_things + $foo;

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This Practice is to break long expressions at lower-possible operators.  It actually says “the lowest possible precedence”.  At a glance, this sounds like a fine idea, and it, in general, is.  The reason given is pretty solid, that you can easily confuse people about precedence by splitting things apart.  This will be even more important on operators people may not be familiar with the precedence of.  (Quiz: Which is higher precedence “&&” or “and”?  Which is higher precedence, “~” or “^”?)

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