I can not reproduce your perlcritic output. Here is what I get (running on v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux): 
$ cat foo.pl
use strict;
use warnings;

my ($unused, $i, $j);
$i = $j; # uninitialized
__END__
$ perlcritic -3 foo.pl
Code not contained in explicit package at line 1, column 1.  Violates 
+encapsulation.  (Severity: 4)
Module does not end with "1;" at line 5, column 1.  Must end with a re
+cognizable true value.  (Severity: 4)
$ perlcritic -Version
1.080
$

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What version of perlcritic do you have? Perhaps mine is too old (1 year old), and I need to upgrade.

Do you have a .perlcritic file? Maybe that has some tool configuration settings that I need to use. Now that you have shown me this cool capability, I really want to use it. Any help would be appreciated.

In reply to Re^2: Identify Unused and Uninitialised variables. (perlcritic) by toolic
in thread Identify Unused and Uninitialised variables. by perlpal

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