["Christian Meyer" <chrisime@uni.de> wrote:] > I'm always using the 'bad' style ;-) > I know the problem of adding a line or more after code (); Note that Perl forces you to use the braces after an if, ostensibly to make it more difficult for people to screw things up when maintaining code. So: if (a) doThis(); is illegal, but: if (a) { doThis(); } is fine. Cheers, Phil