perltidy will gladly re-align those assignments for you. I've got it integrated into my favorite text editor (under Solaris -- nedit) to do the whole file or the selection.

Mind you, I'm not real fussy about that detail, myself.

ObThread: for OO stuff, I start with my $self = shift; and go from there. Sometimes I capture @_; other times I do more shift-ing. It depends...

yours,
Michael