NAME
Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::ProhibitQuotedWordLists - Write qw(foo bar baz) instead of ('foo', 'bar', 'baz').
AFFILIATION
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.
DESCRIPTION
Conway doesn't mention this, but I think qw() is an underused feature of Perl. Whenever you need to declare a list of one-word literals, the qw() operator is wonderfully concise, and makes it easy to add to the list in the future.
@list = ('foo', 'bar', 'baz'); #not ok
@list = qw(foo bar baz); #okCONFIGURATION
This policy can be configured to only pay attention to word lists with at least a particular number of elements. By default, this value is 2, which means that lists containing zero or one elements are ignored. The minimum list size to be looked at can be specified by giving a value for min_elements in .perlcriticrc like this:
[CodeLayout::ProhibitQuotedWordLists]
min_elements = 4This would cause this policy to only complain about lists containing four or more words.
NOTES
In the PPI parlance, a "list" is almost anything with parentheses. I've tried to make this Policy smart by targeting only "lists" that could be sensibly expressed with qw(). However, there may be some edge cases that I haven't covered. If you find one, send me a note.
IMPORTANT CHANGES
This policy was formerly called RequireQuotedWords which seemed a little counter-intuitive. If you get lots of "Cannot load policy module" errors, then you probably need to change RequireQuotedWords to ProhibitQuotedWordLists in your .perlcriticrc file.
AUTHOR
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <thaljef@cpan.org>
Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer. All rights reserved.
COPYRIGHT
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.