Perl::...yQuotes(3pm)

okay so bestie 💖, you're looking at the Perl::...yQuotes(3pm) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's all about a Perl::Critic policy that wants your quotes to be cute and readable.

✨ NAME ✨

This policy is Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitNoisyQuotes, and its whole thing is: use q{} or qq{} instead of quotes for awkward-looking strings.

🦋 AFFILIATION 🦋

This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution. Periodt.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Don't use quotes for one or two-character strings of non-alphanumeric characters (i.e. noise). Those tend to be hard to read. For legibility, use q{} or a named value. However, braces, parentheses and brackets tend to look better in quotes, so those are allowed.

$str = join ',', @list;     #not ok
$str = join ",", @list;     #not ok
$str = join q{,}, @list;    #better

$COMMA = q{,};
$str = join $COMMA, @list;  #best

$lbrace = '(';          #ok
$rbrace = ')';          #ok
print '(', @list, ')';  #ok

🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

No extra knobs here, bestie: this Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Peep Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitEmptyQuotes too.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@imaginative-software.com>

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Imaginative Software Systems. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

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That's the whole page, bestie 🫶 — shoutout to perl v5.42.0, dated 2024-10-23, and the Perl::...yQuotes(3pm) footer. 💅✨