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NAME

B::Lint - Perl lint

SYNOPSIS

perl -MO=Lint[,OPTIONS] foo.pl

DESCRIPTION

The B::Lint module is equivalent to an extended version of the -w option of perl. It is named after the program lint which carries out a similar process for C programs.

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OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS

Option words are separated by commas (not whitespace) and follow the usual conventions of compiler backend options. Following any options (indicated by a leading -) come lint check arguments. Each such argument (apart from the special all and none options) is a word representing one possible lint check (turning on that check) or is no-foo (turning off that check). Before processing the check arguments, a standard list of checks is turned on. Later options override earlier ones. Available options are:

context

Produces a warning whenever an array is used in an implicit scalar

context. For example, both of the lines

    $foo = length(@bar);

    $foo = @bar;

will elicit a warning. Using an explicit scalar() silences the

warning. For example,

    $foo = scalar(@bar);

implicit-read and implicit-write

These options produce a warning whenever an operation implicitly

reads or (respectively) writes to one of Perl's special variables.

For example, implicit-read will warn about these:

    /foo/;

and implicit-write will warn about these:

    s/foo/bar/;

Both implicit-read and implicit-write warn about this:

    for (@a) { ... }

bare-subs

This option warns whenever a bareword is implicitly quoted, but is also

the name of a subroutine in the current package. Typical mistakes that it will

trap are:

    use constant foo => 'bar';

    @a = ( foo => 1 );

    $b{foo} = 2;

Neither of these will do what a naive user would expect.

dollar-underscore

This option warns whenever $_ is used either explicitly anywhere or

as the implicit argument of a print statement.

private-names

This option warns on each use of any variable, subroutine or

method name that lives in a non-current package but begins with

an underscore (``_''). Warnings aren't issued for the special case

of the single character name ``_'' by itself (e.g. $_ and @_).

undefined-subs

This option warns whenever an undefined subroutine is invoked.

This option will only catch explicitly invoked subroutines such

as foo() and not indirect invocations such as &$subref()

or $obj->meth(). Note that some programs or modules delay

definition of subs until runtime by means of the AUTOLOAD

mechanism.

regexp-variables

This option warns whenever one of the regexp variables $`, $& or $'

is used. Any occurrence of any of these variables in your

program can slow your whole program down. See the perlre manpage for

details.

all

Turn all warnings on.

none

Turn all warnings off.

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NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS

-u Package: Normally, Lint only checks the main code of the program together; with all subs defined in package main. The -u option lets you; include other package names whose subs are then checked by Lint.

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