Ramkumar RamachandraRunning perlcritic with gentle severity reports six problems. The following lists the line numbers on which the problems occur, along with a description of the problem. This patch fixes them all.
516: Contrary to common belief, subroutine prototypes do not enable compile-time checks for proper arguments. They serve the singular purpose of defining functions that behave like built-in functions, but check_file_rev_conflict was never intended to behave like one.
714, 836, 855, 1487: Returning `undef' upon failure from a subroutine is pretty common. But if the subroutine is called in list context, an explicit `return undef;' statement will return a one-element list containing `(undef)'. Now if that list is subsequently put in a boolean context to test for failure, then it evaluates to true. But you probably wanted it to be false. The solution is to just use a bare `return' statement whenever you want to return failure. In list context, Perl will then give you an empty list (which is false), and `undef' in scalar context (which is also false).
1441: The three-argument form of `open' (introduced in Perl 5.6) prevents subtle bugs that occur when the filename starts with funny characters like '>' or '<'. It's also more explicitly clear to define the input mode of the file. This policy will not complain if the file explicitly states that it is compatible with a version of Perl prior to 5.6 via an include statement (see 'use 5.008' near the top of the file).
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> --- I was looking at git-send-email.perl after I posted that bug report about SSL_verify. What better way to get started than Perl Best Practices? Here's a nice patch to fix some obvious style issues. I didn't run perlcritic on a higher severity, because I don't know enough Perl to have a well-formed opinion of my own; I'm just fixing the glaringly obvious problems.
git-send-email.perl | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index be809e5..e974b11 100755 --- a/git-send-email.perl +++ b/git-send-email.perl @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ if (@alias_files and $aliasfiletype and defined $parse_alias{$aliasfiletype}) { ($sender) = expand_aliases($sender) if defined $sender; # returns 1 if the conflict must be solved using it as a format-patch argument -sub check_file_rev_conflict($) { +sub check_file_rev_conflict { return unless $repo; my $f = shift; try { @@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ sub ask { } } } - return undef; + return; } my %broken_encoding; @@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ sub extract_valid_address { # less robust/correct than the monster regexp in Email::Valid, # but still does a 99% job, and one less dependency return $1 if $address =~ /($local_part_regexp\@$domain_regexp)/; - return undef; + return; } sub extract_valid_address_or_die { @@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ sub validate_address { valid_re => qr/^(?:quit|q|drop|d|edit|e)/i, default => 'q'); if (/^d/i) { - return undef; + return; } elsif (/^q/i) { cleanup_compose_files(); exit(0); @@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@ sub recipients_cmd { my $sanitized_sender = sanitize_address($sender); my @addresses = (); - open my $fh, "$cmd \Q$file\E |" + open my $fh, q{-|}, "$cmd \Q$file\E" or die "($prefix) Could not execute '$cmd'"; while (my $address = <$fh>) { $address =~ s/^\s*//g; @@ -1484,7 +1484,7 @@ sub validate_patch { return "$.: patch contains a line longer than 998 characters"; } } - return undef; + return; } sub file_has_nonascii {
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