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NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::RequireGlobFunction

DESCRIPTION

Conway discourages the use of the <..> construct for globbing, as its heavily associated with I/O in most people's minds. Instead, he recommends the use of the glob() function as it makes it much more obvious what you're attempting to do.

  @files = <*.pl>;              # not ok
  @files = glob( "*.pl" );      # ok

AUTHOR

Graham TerMarsch <graham@howlingfrog.com>

Copyright (C) 2005 Graham TerMarsch. All rights reserved.

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