Clik here to view.
Lesson of the day: Readonly, Exporter, and subroutine sigils
They don’t get along. As of the recent 1.07 release, Perl::Critic, has started using Readonly to be more more self-compliant with Perl Best Practices. We had been avoiding use of constant for the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Writing configurable Perl::Critic Policies.
As of Perl::Critic 1.07, I would like to discourage the creation of constructors for Policies. Instead, I would encourage the use of P::C::Policy::initialize_if_enabled(). The reasoning is twofold....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Perl::Critic policies in the DarkPAN.
I’m curious about any people who’ve written custom Perl::Critic policies that aren’t on CPAN. What sorts of things are these for? Have you had a look at Perl::Critic 1.082? Have you read...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What kind of personality does Perl::Critic have?
Probably pedantic, but we’ll see what it says. Tagged: Perl::Critic, twitter
View ArticleClik here to view.
Perl::Critic supports autodie.
In chromatic’s session this morning, there was a comment that Perl::Critic didn’t support autodie. It actually has supported it since New Year’s day of this year. Let me say emphatically that one of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How I use Perl::Critic.
Under regular development conditions, I rarely use perlcritic. Most of my Perl::Critic usage is via Test::Perl::Critic for new code and Test::Perl::Critic::Progressive for existing code. For code that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deprecation.
In the source repository, there are a number of changes to Perl::Critic that include deprecation of existing functions/methods. One Policy author has asked us to not do the deprecation because it will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
No Devel::Declare. Ever.
I think Devel::Declare is evil for the same reasons that Adam does. Even if PPI supports it, Perl::Critic will not be supporting any syntax that’s not part of the language core. Not only because it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Don’t put Perl::Critic into source control pre-commit hooks.
Some people seem to like to put Perl::Critic tests into their VCS pre-commit hooks in order to prevent code with violations being checked in. I consider this to be a really bad idea. You should always...
View Article
