• NAME
• DESCRIPTION
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NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitNoisyQuotes

DESCRIPTION

Don't use quotes for one or two-character strings of non-alphanumeric characters (i.e. noise). These tend to be hard to read. For legibility, use q{} or a named value. However, braces, parens, and brackets tend do to look better in quotes, so those are allowed.

  $str = join ',', @list;     #not ok
  $str = join ",", @list;     #not ok
  $str = join q{,}, @list;    #better

  $COMMA = q{,};
  $str = join $COMMA, @list;  #best

  $lbrace = '(';          #ok
  $rbrace = ')';          #ok
  print '(', @list, ')';  #ok

SEE ALSO

the Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitEmptyQuotes manpage

AUTHOR

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <thaljef@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005-2007 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. The full text of this license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.