package Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::RequireLexicalLoopIterators; use 5.010001; use strict; use warnings; use Readonly; use version (); use Perl::Critic::Utils qw( :severities ); use parent 'Perl::Critic::Policy'; our $VERSION = '1.152'; #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Readonly::Scalar my $DESC => q{Loop iterator is not lexical}; Readonly::Scalar my $EXPL => [ 108 ]; Readonly::Scalar my $MINIMUM_PERL_VERSION => version->new( 5.004 ); #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- sub supported_parameters { return () } sub default_severity { return $SEVERITY_HIGHEST } sub default_themes { return qw(core pbp bugs certrec ) } sub applies_to { return 'PPI::Statement::Compound' } #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- sub prepare_to_scan_document { my ( $self, $document ) = @_; # perl5004delta says that is when lexical iterators were introduced, # so ... (RT 67760) my $version = $document->highest_explicit_perl_version(); return ! $version || $version >= $MINIMUM_PERL_VERSION; } #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- sub violates { my ( $self, $elem, undef ) = @_; # First child will be 'for' or 'foreach' keyword return if $elem->type() ne 'foreach'; my $first_child = $elem->schild(0); return if not $first_child; my $start = $first_child->isa('PPI::Token::Label') ? 1 : 0; my $potential_scope = $elem->schild($start + 1); return if not $potential_scope; return if $potential_scope->isa('PPI::Structure::List'); return if $potential_scope eq 'my'; return $self->violation( $DESC, $EXPL, $elem ); } #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1; __END__ #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- =pod =for stopwords foreach perlsyn =head1 NAME Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::RequireLexicalLoopIterators - Write C instead of C. =head1 AFFILIATION This Policy is part of the core L distribution. =head1 DESCRIPTION This policy asks you to use C-style lexical loop iterator variables: foreach my $zed (...) { ... } Unless you use C, C/C loops use a global variable with its value C to the block. In other words, foreach $zed (...) { ... } is more-or-less equivalent to { local $zed foreach $zed (...) { ... } } This may not seem like a big deal until you see code like my $bicycle; for $bicycle (@things_attached_to_the_bike_rack) { if ( $bicycle->is_red() and $bicycle->has_baseball_card_in_spokes() and $bicycle->has_bent_kickstand() ) { $bicycle->remove_lock(); last; } } if ( $bicycle and $bicycle->is_unlocked() ) { ride_home($bicycle); } which is not going to allow you to arrive in time for dinner with your family because the C<$bicycle> outside the loop is not changed by the loop. You may have unlocked your bicycle, but you can't remember which one it was. Lexical loop variables were introduced in Perl 5.004. This policy does not report violations on code which explicitly specifies an earlier version of Perl (e.g. C). =head1 CONFIGURATION This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options. =head1 SEE ALSO L<"Foreach Loops" in perlsyn|perlsyn/Foreach Loops> L<"my() in Control Structures" in perl5004delta|perl5004delta/my() in control structures> =head1 AUTHOR Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2005-2023 Imaginative Software Systems 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 :