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. Read the rest of this entry »
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.
The PBP suggests breaking assignments much like it suggests breaking other operators; the assignment leads the broken line:
my $thingy = $stuff + $hard_things + $foo;
