package Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::ProhibitQuotedWordLists; use 5.010001; use strict; use warnings; use Readonly; use Perl::Critic::Utils qw{ :characters :severities :classification}; use parent 'Perl::Critic::Policy'; our $VERSION = '1.152'; #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Readonly::Scalar my $DESC => q{List of quoted literal words}; Readonly::Scalar my $EXPL => q{Use 'qw()' instead}; #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- sub supported_parameters { return ( { name => 'min_elements', description => 'The minimum number of words in a list that will be complained about.', default_string => '2', behavior => 'integer', integer_minimum => 1, }, { name => 'strict', description => 'Complain even if there are non-word characters in the values.', default_string => '0', behavior => 'boolean', }, ); } sub default_severity { return $SEVERITY_LOW } sub default_themes { return qw( core cosmetic ) } sub applies_to { return 'PPI::Structure::List' } #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- sub violates { my ( $self, $elem, undef ) = @_; # Don't worry about subroutine calls my $sibling = $elem->sprevious_sibling(); return if not $sibling; return if $sibling->isa('PPI::Token::Symbol'); return if $sibling->isa('PPI::Token::Operator') and $sibling eq '->'; return if $sibling->isa('PPI::Token::Word') and not is_included_module_name($sibling); # Get the list elements my $expr = $elem->schild(0); return if not $expr; my @children = $expr->schildren(); return if not @children; my $count = 0; for my $child ( @children ) { next if $child->isa('PPI::Token::Operator') && $child eq $COMMA; # All elements must be literal strings, # and must contain 1 or more word characters. return if not _is_literal($child); my $string = $child->string(); return if $string =~ m{ \s }xms; return if $string eq $EMPTY; return if not $self->{_strict} and $string !~ m{\A [\w-]+ \z}xms; $count++; } # Were there enough? return if $count < $self->{_min_elements}; # If we get here, then all elements were literals return $self->violation( $DESC, $EXPL, $elem ); } sub _is_literal { my $elem = shift; return $elem->isa('PPI::Token::Quote::Single') || $elem->isa('PPI::Token::Quote::Literal'); } 1; __END__ =pod =head1 NAME Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::ProhibitQuotedWordLists - Write C instead of C<('foo', 'bar', 'baz')>. =head1 AFFILIATION This Policy is part of the core L distribution. =head1 DESCRIPTION Conway doesn't mention this, but I think C is an underused feature of Perl. Whenever you need to declare a list of one-word literals, the C 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); #ok use Foo ('foo', 'bar', 'baz'); #not ok use Foo qw(foo bar baz); #ok =head1 CONFIGURATION 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 C in F<.perlcriticrc> like this: [CodeLayout::ProhibitQuotedWordLists] min_elements = 4 This would cause this policy to only complain about lists containing four or more words. By default, this policy won't complain if any of the values in the list contain non-word characters. If you want it to, set the C option to a true value. [CodeLayout::ProhibitQuotedWordLists] strict = 1 =head1 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 C. However, there may be some edge cases that I haven't covered. If you find one, send me a note. =head1 IMPORTANT CHANGES This policy was formerly called C which seemed a little counter-intuitive. If you get lots of "Cannot load policy module" errors, then you probably need to change C to C in your F<.perlcriticrc> file. =head1 AUTHOR Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Imaginative Software Systems. All rights reserved. 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. =cut # Local Variables: # mode: cperl # cperl-indent-level: 4 # fill-column: 78 # indent-tabs-mode: nil # c-indentation-style: bsd # End: # ex: set ts=8 sts=4 sw=4 tw=78 ft=perl expandtab shiftround :