• NAME
• DESCRIPTION
• AUTHOR
• CREDITS
• COPYRIGHT

NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitImplicitNewlines

DESCRIPTION

Strings with embedded line breaks are hard to read. Use concatenation or HEREDOCs instead.

  my $foo = "Line one is quite long
  Line two";                                    # Bad

  my $foo = "Line one is quite long\nLine two"; # Better, but still hard to read

  my $foo = "Line one is quite long\n"
    . "Line two";                               # Better still

  my $foo = <<'EOF';                            # Use heredoc for longer passages
  Line one is quite long
  Line two
  Line three breaks the camel's back
  EOF

AUTHOR

Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

CREDITS

Initial development of this policy was supported by a grant from the Perl Foundation.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007 Chris Dolan. Many 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.