On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 09:02:41PM +0000, Leo Lapworth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been asked what would be a good minimum to have as a coding police
> for a company that isn't focused on Perl, but uses it occasionally. So if
> Perl Best Practices is too much, and you could only have 5 rules for any
> perl script, what would they be?
>
In order of importance, and I only really care about the first 3:
1) No lines exceeding 80 characters.
2) Don't enfornce a coding policy upon others.
3) Be consistent.
4) Avoid doing any work that isn't required. (If you build a framework X
just to be able to do a simple task, you've wasted a lot of resources)
5) Name your variables usefully, and scope them appropriately
(appropriate scope beats "use strict" in my book)
Abigail
