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/ Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitImplicitNewlines

NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitImplicitNewlines

DESCRIPTION

Strings with embedded line breaks are hard to read. Use concatenation or HEREDOCs instead.

my $foo = "Line one is quite long
Line two";                                    # Bad

my $foo = "Line one is quite long\nLine two"; # Better, but still hard to read

my $foo = "Line one is quite long\n"
  . "Line two";                               # Better still

my $foo = <<'EOF';                            # Use heredoc for longer passages
Line one is quite long
Line two
Line three breaks the camel's back
EOF

AUTHOR

Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

CREDITS

Initial development of this policy was supported by a grant from the Perl Foundation.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007 Chris Dolan. Many 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.