NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::ControlStructures::ProhibitNegativeExpressionsInUnlessAndUntilConditions

DESCRIPTION

  until ($foo ne 'blah') {          #not ok
      ...
  }

  while ($foo eq 'blah') {          #ok
      ...
  }

A number of people have problems figuring out the meaning of doubly negated expressions. unless and until are both negative constructs, so any negative (e.g. !~) or reversible operators (e.g. le) included in their conditional expressions are double negations. Conway considers the following operators to be difficult to understand within unless and until:

  ! not
  !~ ne !=
  <   >   <=  >=  <=>
  lt  gt  le  ge  cmp

SEE ALSO

Perl::Critic::Policy::ControlStructures::ProhibitUnlessBlocks

AUTHOR

Elliot Shank <perl@galumph.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Elliot Shank. 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.