NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::InputOutput::RequireBracedFileHandleWithPrint

DESCRIPTION

The print function has a unique syntax that supports an optional file handle argument. Conway suggests wrapping this argument in braces to make it visually stand out from the other arguments. When you put braces around any of the special package-level file handles like STDOUT, STDERR, and DATA, you must the '*' sigil or else it won't compile under use strict 'subs'.

print $FH   "Mary had a little lamb\n";  #not ok
print {$FH} "Mary had a little lamb\n";  #ok

print   STDERR   $foo, $bar, $baz;  #not ok
print  {STDERR}  $foo, $bar, $baz;  #won't compile under 'strict'
print {*STDERR}  $foo, $bar, $baz;  #perfect!

AUTHOR

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <thaljef@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.