PerlCritic

Perl::Critic is an extensible framework for creating and applying coding standards to Perl source code. Essentially, it is a static source code analysis engine. Perl::Critic is distributed with a number of CPAN:Perl::Critic::Policy modules that attempt to enforce various coding guidelines. Most Policy modules are based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway Damian Conway's book http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001735/ Perl Best Practices.

Violations are tracked at Tasks.Item15151.

Perl::Critic settings

We generally want to avoid criticisms with the default perlcritic settings, however, it's highly educational to run perlcritic --brutal and even perlcritic --cruel which still contains useful (and many not-so-useful) warnings which help avoid buggy code.

Constraint settings are stored in ~/.perlcriticrc

theme = bugs
verbose = 8

[-Subroutines::RequireFinalReturn]
[-ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitConstantPragma]
[-ErrorHandling::RequireCheckingReturnValueOfEval]
[-Subroutines::ProhibitBuiltinHomonyms]
[-Variables::ProhibitReusedNames]

[BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitStringyEval]
allow_includes = 1

[Variables::RequireLocalizedPunctuationVars]
allow = @ARGV $ARGV %ENV

[Variables::ProhibitPunctuationVars]
allow = $@ $!

-- MichaelDaum - 29 Jun 2022

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