Perl::Critic::Bangs - A collection of handy Perl::Critic policies
Version 1.07_01
Perl::Critic::Bangs is a collection of Perl::Critic policies that will help make your code better.
The rules included with the Perl::Critic::Bangs group include:
Commented-out code is usually noise. It should be removed.
Watch for comments like "XXX", "TODO", etc.
Tests should have a plan.
Variables like $user and $user2 are insufficiently distinguished.
$user
$user2
Determining the class in a constructor by using ref($proto) || $proto is usually a cut-n-paste that is incorrect.
ref($proto) || $proto
Adding modifiers to a regular expression made up entirely of a variable created with qr() is usually not doing what you expect.
qr()
Vague variables like $data or $info are not descriptive enough.
$data
$info
I didn't want to call it "Perl::Critic::Lester" or "Perl::Critic::Petdance" that would make it sound like they were only my rules. Other people will likely include their own set of rules, too.
So I started thinking of names of famous critics. Ebert, Siskel, Kael, etc. What about music critics? Greil Marcus, J.D. Considine... Lester Bangs! He's even got my name in his! So there was the name.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Bangs for more on Lester Bangs.
Andy Lester, <andy at petdance.com>
<andy at petdance.com>
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-perl-critic-bangs at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Perl-Critic-Bangs. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
bug-perl-critic-bangs at rt.cpan.org
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc Perl::Critic::Bangs
You can also look for information at:
AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/Perl-Critic-Bangs
CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Perl-Critic-Bangs
RT: CPAN's request tracker
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Perl-Critic-Bangs
Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-Critic-Bangs
Source code repository
http://github.com/petdance/perl-critic-bangs
Thanks to
Andy Moore for helping me get this off the ground.
Oystein Torget for bug reports and patches.
Elliot Shank and the rest of the Perl::Critic team for ongoing support.
Copyright 2006-2011 Andy Lester.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.
To install Perl::Critic::Bangs, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Perl::Critic::Bangs
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Perl::Critic::Bangs
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.