NAME

Perl::Critic::Pulp - some add-on perlcritic policies

DESCRIPTION

This is a collection of the following add-on policies for Perl::Critic. They're under a new "pulp" theme plus other themes according to their function (see "POLICY THEMES" in Perl::Critic).

Compatibility::ConstantPragmaHash

Version declaration for hash style multi-constants.

Compatibility::Gtk2Constants

New enough Gtk2 version for its constants.

Compatibility::PerlMinimumVersionAndWhy

Check Perl version declared against features used.

Compatibility::PodMinimumVersion

Check Perl version declared against POD features used.

Documentation::RequireEndBeforeLastPod

__END__ before POD at end of file.

Miscellanea::TextDomainPlaceholders

Check args to __x and __nx.

Miscellanea::TextDomainUnused

Locale::TextDomain imported but not used.

Modules::ProhibitUseQuotedVersion

Unquoted version string in use Foo '1.5'

ValuesAndExpressions::ConstantBeforeLt

Avoiding problems with FOO < 123

ValuesAndExpressions::NotWithCompare

Avoiding problems with ! $x == $y

ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitEmptyCommas

Stray consecutive commas ,,

ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitNullStatements

Stray semicolons ;

ValuesAndExpressions::UnexpandedSpecialLiteral

Literal use of __PACKAGE__ etc.

Roughly half are about bugs and half cosmetic. You can always enable or disable the ones you do or don't want. You'll have realized there's a lot of perlcritic builtin and add-on policies and they range from the helpful to the bizarre, and in some cases are even mutually contradictory. So it's quite normal to pick and choose what you want reported. If you're not turning off about a quarter and customizing others then either you're not trying or you're much too easily lead!

OTHER NOTES

In a lot of the perlcritic docs, including Pulp here, policy names appear without the full Perl::Critic::Policy::... class name. In Emacs have a look at my man-completion.el to automatically get the man page from a suffix part (at point), or ffap-perl-module.el to go to the source similarly.

http://user42.tuxfamily.org/man-completion/index.html

http://user42.tuxfamily.org/ffap-perl-module/index.html

Or in perlcritic's output you can ask for %P for the full name to paste or follow. Here's a good format you can put in your .perlcriticrc with a file:line:column: which Emacs will recognise (see Perl::Critic::Violation for % escapes).

verbose=%f:%l:%c:\n %P\n %m\n

perlcritic.el has patterns to match the perlcritic builtin formats, but it's easier to print file:line:column: in the first place.

SEE ALSO

Perl::Critic

HOME PAGE

http://user42.tuxfamily.org/perl-critic-pulp/index.html

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2008, 2009 Kevin Ryde

Perl-Critic-Pulp is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

Perl-Critic-Pulp is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Perl-Critic-Pulp. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.