Re: Perl::Critic / Perl static analysis?
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
>> David Golden <xdaveg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> You'll probably irritate upstream authors if you do that. The default
>>> Perl::Critic rules are very specific to Perl Best Practices (the book),
>>> which the author states are just *one* set of possible best practices.
>
>> Sadly the "Perl Best Practices" online viewer isn't supported by Gnash
>> so the warnings it outputs are also of limited use.
>
> Yeah, I ran it once on some of my code, agreed with about half of it,
> disagreed completely with about a quarter of it, and couldn't figure out
> what another quarter of it was talking about since I needed to go read a
> book that I don't own. Sounds like there's now a way to read the book
> without buying it (?), but still, eh.
I believe you can crank up the verbosity of the output to include a
summary of the issues (so you don't need the book). There are also
many plugins that provide style rules that have nothing to do with the
book. It's really a great tool for authors to help improve
consistency, particularly in a team or group development setting.
David
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