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Perl-Critic-Lax-0.012
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NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::Lax::ProhibitEmptyQuotes::ExceptAsFallback - empty quotes are okay as the fallback on the rhs of ||

VERSION

version 0.012

DESCRIPTION

Sure, "" can be confusing when crammed into the middle of a big list of values, and a bunch of spaces is even worse. It's really common, though, to write this code to get a default, false, defined string:

my $value = $got || '';

It's got a certain charm about it that just isn't manifested by these:

my $value = $got || $EMPTY;
my $value = $got || q{};

This policy prohibits all-whitespace strings constructed by single or double quotes, except for the empty string when it follows the high-precedence "or" or "defined or" operators.

AUTHOR

Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.