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NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProhibitAmpersandSigils

DESCRIPTION

Since Perl 5, the ampersand sigil is completely optional when invoking subroutines. And it's easily confused with the bitwise 'and' operator.

  @result = &some_function(); #Not ok
  @result = some_function();  #ok

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.