Perl::...ations(3pm)

💅 NAME

Bestie, this is Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProhibitConditionalDeclarations — and the whole vibe is literally just: do not write my $foo = $bar if $baz;. That's it. That's the policy. 🚫✨

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🫶 AFFILIATION

This policy ships as part of the core Perl::Critic distribution — so it's already in the group chat, no invite needed. 🎀

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😭 DESCRIPTION

Okay so, declaring a variable with a postfix conditional? Deeply confusing. Genuinely it's giving chaos. If the conditional is false, it is not clear whether the variable will be false, undefined, undeclared, or what. Like… pick a lane bestie 😵‍💫

It is much more straightforward to make your variable declarations separately. Keep them on their own little main-character moment. 👑

These are all not it:

my $foo = $baz if $bar;          #not ok
my $foo = $baz unless $bar;      #not ok
our $foo = $baz for @list;       #not ok
local $foo = $baz foreach @list; #not ok

All four? Not ok. Not a single one. 💀

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🎀 CONFIGURATION

This policy is not configurable except for the standard options. That's it. No extra knobs, no secret settings menu, nothing to tweak. 🦋

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✨ AUTHOR

Jeffrey R. Thalhammer <jeff@imaginative-software.com> — an icon, a legend, the moment. 🫶

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👑 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Chris Dolan.

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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Fr fr, read your license, bestie. It's giving responsible adult energy and honestly? Slay. 💜

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✨ cute lil sign-off time ✨ — this page is from the perl v5.42.0 distribution, dated 2024-10-23, and it's the Perl::...ations(3pm) manual page brought to you by User Contributed Perl Documentation. Mwah. 💖🦋🌸