• NAME
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NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProhibitPerl4PackageNames

DESCRIPTION

Perl 5 kept single quotes (') as package component separators in order to remain backward compatible with prior perls, but advocated using double colon (::) instead. In the more than a decade since Perl 5, double colons have been overwhelmingly adopted and most people are not even aware that the single quote can be used in this manner. So, unless you're trying to obfuscate your code, don't use them.

  package Foo::Bar::Baz;    #ok
  package Foo'Bar'Baz;      #not ok

SEE ALSO

the perlmod manpage

AUTHOR

Elliot Shank <perl@galumph.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007 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.