NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::Documentation::ProhibitParagraphTwoDots - don't end a paragraph with two dots

DESCRIPTION

This policy is part of the Perl::Critic::Pulp addon. It asks you not to end a POD paragraph with two dots,

    Some sentence..                 # bad

This is a surprisingly easy typo, but of course is entirely cosmetic and on that basis this policy is lowest priority and under the "cosmetic" theme (see "POLICY THEMES" in Perl::Critic).

A three or more dot ellipsis is fine,

    And some more of this ...       # ok

Anything within a paragraph is fine,

    Numbers 1 .. 10 are handled.    # ok

Only text paragraphs are checked, verbatim paragraphs can end with anything,

    This is an example,

        example_code (1 ..          # ok
                      10);

There might be other dubious paragraph endings to pick up, but things like ";." or ":." can arise from code or smiley faces, so at the moment only two dots are bad.

Disabling

If you don't care about this you can disable ProhibitParagraphTwoDots from your .perlcriticrc in the usual way (see "CONFIGURATION" in Perl::Critic),

    [-Documentation::ProhibitParagraphTwoDots]

A ## no critic directive works in recent Perl::Critic, though generally must be before any __END__ token.

SEE ALSO

Perl::Critic::Pulp, Perl::Critic,

HOME PAGE

http://user42.tuxfamily.org/perl-critic-pulp/index.html

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2011 Kevin Ryde

Perl-Critic-Pulp is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

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