use Perl

• Perl::Critic? (Score:1)

  by Alias (5735)

  Is there a critic policy for that yet?
  • Re: (Score:1)

    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
• A Tip (Score:2)

  by davorg (18)

  If you're comparing a constant to a variable, then put the constant first in the expression.
  
  if (10 == $x)
  
  If you forget the extra '=' then most C-style languages will throw a compile-time error.
  
  Can't count the amount of time that's saved me over the last twenty years.