I'm not contributing anything to the OP, but this made me wonder about perl critic. So I installed and and started to play. Everything I've written, so far, passes it(at least from the documentations example) so I deliberately coded something that does not pass strictures: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

$thing = "bleh";
print "hello $thing $bleh\n";

[download]
Here's critic: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Perl::Critic;

my $file = shift;
my $critic = Perl::Critic->new();
my @violations = $critic->critique($file);

print "@violations\n";

[download]
And here's my result: 

$ perl critic ;perl thing 
Global symbol "$thing" requires explicit package name at thing line 6.
Global symbol "$thing" requires explicit package name at thing line 8.
Global symbol "$bleh" requires explicit package name at thing line 8.
Execution of thing aborted due to compilation errors.

[download]
What's the purpose of this 'critic' module anyhow?

In reply to Re^2: perlcritic & test files by osbosb
in thread perlcritic & test files by Bor

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.