Damian Conway is an author of Object Oriented Perl resently published on Perl.com an very interesting article – Ten Essential Development Practices. There are 10 useful and helpful recomendations how to produce a good-looking Perl code. Damian Conway is a great man in Perl community. So, you can trast him and to consider his opinion.
Those tips came from his new book which was published O’Reilly: Perl Best Practices. Think that book should stay together with Effective Perl Programming on bookshelf each Perl developer