Sounds like what'd be much more useful is something like perlcritic: http://perlcritic.com/ http://perlcritic.com/ rather than a -lint tool. As the name implie

Sounds like what'd be much more useful is something like perlcritic: http://perlcritic.com/ http://perlcritic.com/ rather than a -lint tool. As the name implies, perlcritic can be fairly opinionated, but it has flags and a config file to handle what aspects you wish to criticise. (Quite a few of the 'Perl Best Practices' aren't, anymore, and just add noise to the output.) Having an extensible plugin architecture for additional tests is also nice.