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Perl::Critic::Policy::Objects::ProhibitIndirectSyntax(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Perl::Critic::Policy::Objects::ProhibitIndirectSyntax(3)

Perl::Critic::Policy::Objects::ProhibitIndirectSyntax - Prohibit indirect object call syntax.

This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.

Indirect object syntax is commonly used in other object-oriented languages for instantiating objects. Perl allows this, but to say that it supports it may be going too far. Instead of writing

    my $foo = new Foo;

it is preferable to write

    my $foo = Foo->new;

The problem is that Perl needs to make a number of assumptions at compile time to disambiguate the first form, so it tends to be fragile and to produce hard-to-track-down bugs.

Indirect object syntax is also hard for Perl::Critic to disambiguate, so this policy only checks certain subroutine calls. The names of the subroutines can be configured using the "forbid" configuration option:

    [Objects::ProhibitIndirectSyntax]
    forbid = create destroy

The "new" subroutine is configured by default; any additional "forbid" values are in addition to "new".

The general situation can not be handled via static analysis.

Perl::Critic::Policy::Dynamic::NoIndirect and indirect both do a better job with this, but they require that you compile/execute your code.

Thomas R. Wyant, III wyant at cpan dot org

Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Tom Wyant.

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.

2022-04-08 perl v5.32.1

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