Cuddling elses or not?

Damien Conway's "perl best practices" recommends not to, because it would reduce visibility of the else block.

I vehemently disagree. Having an else block start on a line by itself makes it look like an unrelated statement, when in reality it is a continuation of the if block.

By cuddling your elses, you make it more clear that the block is part of a larger set of other blocks (if/elsif/else), rather than it being a block on its own.