I've had to read other people's Perl code before, and that experience basically made "flexibility" a bad word in this area for me. Please stop the ^$%@#$%#@^@$

I've had to read other people's Perl code before, and that experience basically made "flexibility" a bad word in this area for me. Please stop the ^$%@#$%#@^@$%^&( nonsense, Perl hackers. That's not flexibility, it's childish bravado. Write code that people can read. If some of that precious "flexibility" is lost in the process, that's a net gain actually.