Write better Perl with Perl::Critic

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Post by chorny » Tue, Apr 28, 2009, 1:49 AM UTC

Write better Perl with Perl::Critic
damienlearnsperl.blogspot.com

Re: Write better Perl with Perl::Critic

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Post by aneesh » Tue, Apr 28, 2009, 3:02 AM UTC

Try it out at http://perlcritic.com/. The feedback is usable - when the tool finds something to complain about, it provides a link to documentation explaining what it didn't like, and the way it "should be".

Re: Write better Perl with Perl::Critic

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 28, 2009, 4:12 AM UTC

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Re: Write better Perl with Perl::Critic

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Post by DTrejo » Tue, Apr 28, 2009, 6:31 AM UTC

Has someone done something similar with other languages?

Re: Write better Perl with Perl::Critic

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Post by draegtun » Tue, Apr 28, 2009, 8:34 AM UTC

I used Perl::Critic a few years ago on a contract to demonstrate the code I had written was over 90% "Perl-Critic" compliant.

For the few non compliant programs I then documented why and what could be done next (in nearly all cases these programs hadn't been refactored yet).

The client was extremely pleased. So much so he asked me to perform a program audit on the complete Perl codebase he had ;-)

Re: Write better Perl with Perl::Critic

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Post by leadnose » Tue, Apr 28, 2009, 8:56 AM UTC

DTrejo wrote: post #4

Has someone done something similar with other languages?

http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/hlint/

Re: Write better Perl with Perl::Critic

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Post by stefano » Tue, Apr 28, 2009, 9:02 AM UTC

DTrejo wrote: post #4

Has someone done something similar with other languages?

For javascript: http://www.jslint.com/

Re: Write better Perl with Perl::Critic

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Post by draegtun » Tue, Apr 28, 2009, 10:11 AM UTC

DTrejo wrote: post #4

Has someone done something similar with other languages?

For Python use pylint: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pylint