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# -*- conf -*-
#
# Default configuration for perlcritic.  Be sure to copy this into the source
# for packages that run perlcritic tests automatically during the build for
# reproducible test results.
#
# This file has been updated to match perlcritic 1.118.
#
# The canonical version of this file is maintained in the rra-c-util package,
# which can be found at <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/rra-c-util/>.
#
# Written by Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
# Copyright 2011, 2012, 2013
#     The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
#
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# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
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#
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severity = 1
verbose  = %f:%l:%c: [%p] %m (%e, Severity: %s)\n

# I prefer this policy (a lot, actually), but other people in my group at
# Stanford really didn't like it, so this is my compromise to agree with a
# group coding style.
[-CodeLayout::ProhibitParensWithBuiltins]

# Stanford's coding style allows postfix unless for flow control.  There
# doesn't appear to be any way to allow it only for flow control (the logic
# for "if" and "when" appears to be special-cased), so we have to allow unless
# globally.
[ControlStructures::ProhibitPostfixControls]
allow = unless

# This is handled with a separate test case that uses Test::Spelling.
[-Documentation::PodSpelling]

# Pod::Man and Pod::Text fixed this bug years ago.  I know, I maintain them.
[-Documentation::RequirePodLinksIncludeText]

# The POD sections Perl::Critic wants are incompatible with the POD template
# from perlpodstyle, which is what I use for my POD documentation.
[-Documentation::RequirePodSections]

# This problem was fixed in Perl 5.14, which now properly preserves the value
# of $@ even if destructors run at exit from the eval block.
[-ErrorHandling::RequireCheckingReturnValueOfEval]

# The default of 9 is too small and forces weird code contortions.
[InputOutput::RequireBriefOpen]
lines = 25

# This is correct 80% of the time, but it isn't correct for a lot of scripts
# inside packages, where maintaining $VERSION isn't worth the effort.
# Unfortunately, there's no way to override it, so it gets turned off
# globally.
[-Modules::RequireVersionVar]

# This sounds interesting but is actually useless.  Any large blocks of
# literal text, which does not add to the complexity of the regex, will set it
# off.
[-RegularExpressions::ProhibitComplexRegexes]

# I generally don't want to require Readonly as a prerequisite for all my Perl
# modules.
[-ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitConstantPragma]

# A good idea, but there are too many places where this would be more
# confusing than helpful.  Pull out numbers if one might change them
# independent of the algorithm, but don't do so for mathematical formulae.
[-ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitMagicNumbers]

# Increase this to six digits so that I'm not told to add underscores to
# port numbers (which is just silly).
[ValuesAndExpressions::RequireNumberSeparators]
min_value = 100000

# Text::Wrap has a broken interface that requires use of package variables.
[Variables::ProhibitPackageVars]
add_packages = Text::Wrap

# use English was one of the worst ideas in the history of Perl.  It makes the
# code slightly more readable for amateurs at the cost of confusing
# experienced Perl programmers and sending people in futile quests for where
# these magical global variables are defined.
[-Variables::ProhibitPunctuationVars]