Re: cleaning perl code

On 4/12/20 3:42 AM, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 12:13:08PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> --- a/src/tools/msvc/Project.pm
>> +++ b/src/tools/msvc/Project.pm
>> @@ -420,13 +420,10 @@ sub read_file
>> {
>> my $filename = shift;
>> my $F;
>> - my $t = $/;
>> -
>> - undef $/;
>> + local $/ = undef;
>> open($F, '<', $filename) || croak "Could not open file $filename\n";
>> my $txt = <$F>;
>> close($F);
>> - $/ = $t;
> +1 for this and for the other three hunks like it. The resulting code is
> shorter and more robust, so this is a good one-time cleanup. It's not
> important to mandate this style going forward, so I wouldn't change
> perlcriticrc for this one.
>
>> --- a/src/tools/version_stamp.pl
>> +++ b/src/tools/version_stamp.pl
>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>> -#! /usr/bin/perl -w
>> +#! /usr/bin/perl
>>
>> #################################################################
>> # version_stamp.pl -- update version stamps throughout the source tree
>> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
>> #
>>
>> use strict;
>> +use warnings;
> This and the other "use warnings" additions look good. I'm assuming you'd
> change perlcriticrc like this:
>
> +[TestingAndDebugging::RequireUseWarnings]
> +severity = 5

OK, I've committed all that stuff. I think that takes care of the
non-controversial part of what I proposed :-)

cheers

andrew

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