G'day stevieb,
That's an extraordinarily similar list to what I might have written. :-)
My coding style generally falls into two camps: what I write for myself, and what I write for $work.
Over the years (close to 30 now for Perl) my style has changed:
not in leaps and bounds, but just a slow progression of what I hope is general, incremental improvements.
Given the similarity, I'll just go through your list and indicate what I do differently.
Basically, if it's not mentioned, I do the same as you.
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I don't add that extra white space when deferencing.
Something of a moot point for personally coding:
I'm more likely to write "keys $href->{thing}->%*" (not a lot of oppotunity for whitespace there).
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I disagree that '->' is needed in '$hash{one}->{two}'.
Of course, I can't see the underlying code but '$hash{one}{two}' would surely suffice.
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I do have some standard tests which I get through module-starter
(some are just ones I added to the template directory and install manually from there).
I'm not a huge fan of TDD.
I do write tests during development; usually after I've added a handful of related methods, but never before.
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I don't use IDEs. I use vim for pretty much everything:
possibly giving away my age when I think back to when vim was vi
and my "monitor" was a roll of paper on the back of a teletypewriter console.
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I don't use the debugger either.
I prefer Data::Dump over Data::Dumper in most cases.
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I don't use PPI; although, I am aware of it.
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GitLab CI/CD for $work only.
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Reading params with shift was something I did a lot, but not anymore.
Too many instances of needing a extra param and changing "my $x = shift;" to "my ($x, $y) = shift;"
— and that can be a surprisingly difficult bug to track down.
Anyway, I've used "@_" pretty much exclusively since the early 2000s.
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I would have written hundreds of modules using "pure perl OOP"; mostly for $work but also for personal code.
I was very pleased when modules started to appear to shoulder some of the work.
I used quite a few but mainly use Moose, and occasionally Moo, these days.
I'm keeping my eye on Cor.
++ for a good post.
It'll be interesting to see what others come up with.
