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# $Date: 2009-01-18 17:32:26 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) $
# $Author: clonezone $
# $Revision: 3007 $
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use 5.006001;
use strict;
use Perl::Critic::Utils qw{ :severities :classification :ppi };
our $VERSION = '1.095_001';
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Readonly::Scalar my $DESC => q{Bareword file handle opened};
Readonly::Scalar my $EXPL => [ 202, 204 ];
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
sub supported_parameters { return () }
sub default_severity { return $SEVERITY_HIGHEST }
sub default_themes { return qw( core pbp bugs ) }
sub applies_to { return 'PPI::Token::Word' }
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
sub violates {
my ($self, $elem, undef) = @_;
return if $elem ne 'open';
return if ! is_function_call($elem);
my $first_arg = ( parse_arg_list($elem) )[0];
return if !$first_arg;
my $first_token = $first_arg->[0];
return if !$first_token;
if ( $first_token->isa('PPI::Token::Word') ) {
if ( ($first_token ne 'my') && ($first_token !~ m/^STD(?:IN|OUT|ERR)$/xms ) ) {
return $self->violation( $DESC, $EXPL, $elem );
}
}
return; #ok!
}
1;
__END__
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
=pod
=head1 NAME
Perl::Critic::Policy::InputOutput::ProhibitBarewordFileHandles - Write C<open my $fh, q{<}, $filename;> instead of C<open FH, q{<}, $filename;>.
=head1 AFFILIATION
This Policy is part of the core L<Perl::Critic|Perl::Critic>
distribution.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Using bareword symbols to refer to file handles is particularly evil
because they are global, and you have no idea if that symbol already
points to some other file handle. You can mitigate some of that risk
by C<local>izing the symbol first, but that's pretty ugly. Since Perl
5.6, you can use an undefined scalar variable as a lexical reference
to an anonymous filehandle. Alternatively, see the
L<IO::Handle|IO::Handle> or L<IO::File|IO::File> or
L<FileHandle|FileHandle> modules for an object-oriented approach.
open FH, '<', $some_file; #not ok
open my $fh, '<', $some_file; #ok
my $fh = IO::File->new($some_file); #ok
There are three exceptions: STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR. These three
standard filehandles are always package variables.
=head1 CONFIGURATION
This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<IO::Handle|IO::Handle>
L<IO::File|IO::File>
=head1 AUTHOR
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <thaljef@cpan.org>
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2005-2009 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.
=cut
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