Oof. Updated.

I ran a little test script but my .perlcriticrc had got borked somehow so perlcritic ran with -5 (why is that the default, anyway?), and the rule has a severity of 4. I didn't notice anything wrong because "Code before strictures enabled" has a severity of 5, so it did throw an error. Thanks for the correction. (When I first went to answer the question I thought I remembered there was a rule!) 


#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;

my $foo = 'bar';
use strict;

exit(0);
my $baz = 'quux';

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$ perlcritic 1140661.pl
Code before strictures are enabled at line 3, column 1.  See page 429 
+of PBP.  (Severity: 5)

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$ perlcritic -4 1140661.pl
Code before strictures are enabled at line 3, column 1.  See page 429 
+of PBP.  (Severity: 5)
Unreachable code at line 9, column 1.  Consider removing it.  (Severit
+y: 4)
$

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The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re^4: exit this way by 1nickt
in thread exit this way by ExReg

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