Re^4: What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO staff

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Re^5: What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO staff by johngg (Canon) on Sep 12, 2020 at 13:46 UTC
if we assume that somebody uses this formatting to suffix conditionals I do, pretty much all the time! The ability to span a statement over multiple lines without jumping through backslash hoops is one of the things that makes Perl so attractive. I also think it makes code much easier to read rather than having excessively long lines that involve either horizontal scrolling or line wrapping. As to your comment regarding excessive length identifiers, I come from a Fortran IV background where we had a maximum of 8 characters for identifiers (ICL 1900 Fortran compiler) so I'm all for long, descriptive and unambiguous identifiers that aid those who come after in understanding my code. Cheers, JohnGG	[reply]
Re^5: What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO staff by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Sep 11, 2020 at 08:11 UTC
We need not "assume that somebody uses this formatting". I do it frequently, and I have often seen it in other people's code. It is not a purely-hypothetical case.	[reply]
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