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Perl::Critic? (Score:1)

by Alias (5735) on 2008.05.13 22:40 (#62844) Homepage Journal

Is there a critic policy for that yet?

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  by ChrisDolan (2855)
  
  I was about to say yes, but then I checked and, no, we don't have a policy for that. CodePro has one for Java and that's what I was thinking of. :-)
  
  As someone else said, I always write "10 == $x" instead of "$x == 10". It takes just a little getting used to, but it's a MUCH safer style. In autoboxed scalars, it works well too: in Java, "10".equals(str) is better than str.equals("10") because the former handles null gracefully and the latter does not.
  
  For consistency, I try to put the constant first for ev

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