Understanding Nothing

Things I’ve learned about perltidy.

When returning a hashref from a subroutine, make sure to explicitly give the ‘return’ command, or else perltidy will get confused, think it’s a bare block, and format it strangely.

Similarly, if the last statement of a script is complex, with nested subrefs etc, adding the trailing semicolon can change how perltidy indents the code quite significantly…

V. Satheesh Babu has an interesting article on using Oracle Stored Procedures to add an extra layer of security to web applications.