Re: No warning when assiging to a variable

in reply to No warning when assiging to a variable

What you are asking for is a “perl lint,” which catches the stuff that is “technically legal but probably not what you wanted to do,” and I do not readily know of one. Is there one?

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Re^2: No warning when assiging to a variable by GotToBTru (Prior) on Aug 14, 2013 at 21:19 UTC
Perl Critic, I suppose, is supposed to be the perl lint. It says, on brutal mode: No package-scoped "$VERSION" variable found Return value of flagged function ignored - print Return value of flagged function ignored - print	[reply]

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