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@sydneyfalk I've never used Perl, but it sounds like the problem was with the newcommer.

If the project was built around an already defined codestyle, he needed to follow that style, even if it meant learning a lot of things from scratch.

You need to follow a project's codestyle, even if it means getting out of your comfort space.
That's why I follow PEP8 for python, for example. Modern linters help a lot in these cases.