CONTENTS

• NAME
• AFFILIATION
• DESCRIPTION
• CONFIGURATION
• AUTHOR
• COPYRIGHT

#NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::RequireSimpleSortBlock - Sort blocks should have a single statement.

#AFFILIATION

This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.

#DESCRIPTION

Conway advises that sort functions should be simple. Any complicated operations on list elements should be computed and cached (perhaps via a Schwartzian Transform) before the sort, rather than computed inside the sort block, because the sort block is called N log N times instead of just N times.

This policy prohibits the most blatant case of complicated sort blocks: multiple statements. Future policies may wish to examine the sort block in more detail -- looking for subroutine calls or large numbers of operations.

#CONFIGURATION

This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.

#AUTHOR

Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

#COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Chris Dolan.

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