Perl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProhibitUnusedPrivateUseroContributed PPerl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProhibitUnusedPrivateSubroutines(3pm)
NAME
Perl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProhibitUnusedPrivateSubroutines - Prevent unused private subroutines.
AFFILIATION
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.
DESCRIPTION
By convention Perl authors (like authors in many other languages) indicate private methods and variables by inserting a leading underscore
before the identifier. This policy catches such subroutines which are not used in the file which declares them.
This module defines a 'use' of a subroutine as a subroutine or method call to it (other than from inside the subroutine itself), a
reference to it (i.e. "my $foo = &_foo"), a "goto" to it outside the subroutine itself (i.e. "goto &_foo"), or the use of the
subroutine's name as an even-numbered argument to "use overload".
CONFIGURATION
You can define what a private subroutine name looks like by specifying a regular expression for the "private_name_regex" option in your
.perlcriticrc:
[Subroutines::ProhibitUnusedPrivateSubroutines]
private_name_regex = _(?!_)w+
The above example is a way of saying that subroutines that start with a double underscore are not considered to be private. (Perl::Critic,
in its implementation, uses leading double underscores to indicate a distribution-private subroutine -- one that is allowed to be invoked
by other Perl::Critic modules, but not by anything outside of Perl::Critic.)
You can configure additional subroutines to accept by specifying them in a space-delimited list to the "allow" option:
[Subroutines::ProhibitUnusedPrivateSubroutines]
allow = _bar _baz
These are added to the default list of exemptions from this policy. So the above allows "sub _bar {}" and "sub _baz {}", even if they are
not referred to in the module that defines them.
HISTORY
This policy is derived from Perl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProtectPrivateSubs, which looks at the other side of the problem.
BUGS
Does not forbid "sub Foo::_foo{}" because it does not know (and can not assume) what is in the "Foo" package.
SEE ALSO
Perl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProtectPrivateSubs.
AUTHOR
Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Thomas R. Wyant, III.
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.
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