Description: Damian
Conway's book "Perl Best Practices" has sparked a revolution in coding
style among CPAN developers. Even before that book, many of those
developers have wanted a way to judge whether their code conforms with
a selection of best practices, hence modules like Perl::Tidy, B::Lint
and even "use strict". Perl::Critic is a new module which strives to be
a powerful and flexible tool to judge code against a user-selected
array of "Policy" modules. Example policies include
"CodeLayout::ProhibitHardTabs" and
"TestingAndDebugging::RequireUseStrict". As of v0.15, we have
implemented 70 policies, most of which derive from the 256
recommendations made by Conway. The API uses Module::Pluggable to
enable third-parties to easily add more policies. A separate
Test::Perl::Critic module makes it easy to confirm that your code is
still in compliance with your established policies.

In this presentation, I will present Perl::Critic's features and demonstrate how you can start using it against your own code.