Re: perlcritic: prohibit map and grep in void conext

On 7/27/21 12:06 PM, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Hi hackers,
>
> In the patches for improving the MSVC build process, I noticed a use of
> `map` in void context. This is considered bad form, and has a
> perlcritic policy forbidding it:
> https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitVoidMap.
>
> Attached is a patch that increases severity of that and the
> corresponding `grep` policy to 5 to enable it in our perlcritic policy,
> and fixes the one use that had already snuck in.
>

Personally I'm OK with it, but previous attempts to enforce perlcritic
policies have met with a less than warm reception, and we had to back
off. Maybe this one will fare better.

I keep the buildfarm code perlcritic compliant down to severity 3 with a
handful of exceptions.

cheers

andrew

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