NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProhibitBuiltinHomonyms

DESCRIPTION

Common sense dictates that you shouldn't declare subroutines with the same name as one of Perl's built-in functions. See `perldoc perlfunc` for a list of built-ins.

sub open {}  #not ok
sub exit {}  #not ok
sub print {} #not ok

#You get the idea...

Exceptions are made for BEGIN, END, INIT and CHECK blocks, as well as AUTOLOAD, DESTROY, and import subroutines.

CAVEATS

It is reasonable to declare an object method with the same name as a Perl built-in function, since they are easily distinguished from each other. However, at this time, Perl::Critic cannot tell whether a subroutine is static or an object method.

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.