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💅 Perl::Critic::Policy::Community::ArrayAssignAref 💅

okay bestie, so this page is from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and the module we're talking about is Perl::Critic::Policy::Community::ArrayAssignAref — say that five times fast, I dare you 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Perl::Critic::Policy::Community::ArrayAssignAref — pls stop assigning an anonymous arrayref to an array, it's giving chaos 💀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the tea is: a super common oopsie is wanting to put values into an array, but accidentally using arrayref brackets [] instead of parentheses (). and the result? your array ends up holding exactly one element — an arrayref — which is almost never what you actually meant. lowkey tragic 😭

but if that is what you meant (valid, icon behaviour), you can just wrap the arrayref brackets in parentheses for clarity. problem solved, no cap ✨

 @array = [];          # not ok
 @array = [1, 2, 3];   # not ok
 @array = ([1, 2, 3]); # ok

now for the lore 📖 — this policy is a subclass of Perl::Critic::Policy::Plicease::ProhibitArrayAssignAref, which is itself a fork of the Perl::Critic::Pulp policy Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitArrayAssignAref. it does the exact same thing, but it's serving it in the "community" theme. same energy, different fit 💖

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🦋 AFFILIATION 🦋

this policy is part of Perl::Critic::Community. it's in the group chat, fr fr 🌈

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🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

not configurable, bestie. it's not like that. the only options you get are the standard options — that's it, that's the whole menu 🍓

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Dan Book, dbook@cpan.org — the icon who wrote this 💜

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📜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 📜

Copyright 2015, Dan Book.

This library is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License version 2.0.

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• Perl::Critic
• Perl::Critic::Pulp

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ngl this one's short but it's a life saver — go fix your array assignments, main character 💅

so yeah, that's the whole page! perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-03-22 — mwah, love u, go slay some lints 🧚✨