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> I believe Perl::Critic to be the more powerful of the two tools. It is quite limited by Perl's quirky syntax, unfortunately ("only Perl can parse Perl"). Las
by lazyjones 13y ago
> I believe Perl::Critic to be the more powerful of the two tools.
It is quite limited by Perl's quirky syntax, unfortunately ("only Perl can parse Perl"). Last time I checked, it would miss e.g. all warnings for anonymous subs:
# triggers "Subroutine "foo" does not end with "return" at line 5, column 1. See page 197 of PBP. (Severity: 4)"
sub foo {
my $s=shift;
}
# triggers no warnings
my $x = sub {
my $s=shift;
}
This is a bug/limitation in PPI (which otherwise does a great job with the mess that is Perl syntax) ... I'd assume the various JS analysers can do a more thorough job.