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2 points by vgy7ujm ↗ HN
http://perltricks.com/article/6-more-things-about-6/

The article is about things the author like about Perl 6.

I like the author and have read several books and followed his blogs in the past. But I am not sure about the bracket style used here.

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dozzie
Yeah, it's terrible. Why do you ask?
vgy7ujm
Perhaps I hoped someone would say something about it that I have missed. So I can keep reading that authors books and blogs without just seeing "indentation errors".

It will (most likely?) be the style used in the upcoming Learning Perl 6 book.

That book will probably be the most read book by newcomers so it might set a precedence for P6 style in the wild.

dozzie
You have a point with setting a precedent. Nagios' documentation uses the awful last-bracket-indented style, and almost every config snippet I've seen replicates that, despite the fact that Nagios ignores whitespace.