Update the coding guidelines for Perl 5.
Signed-off-by: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -179,6 +179,50 @@ For C programs:
- Use Git's gettext wrappers to make the user interface
translatable. See "Marking strings for translation" in po/README.
+For Perl 5 programs:
+
+ - Most of the C guidelines above apply.
+
+ - We try to support Perl 5.8 and later ("use Perl 5.008").
+
+ - use strict and use warnings are strongly preferred.
+
+ - As in C (see above), we avoid using braces unnecessarily (but Perl forces
+ braces around if/unless/else/foreach blocks, so this is not always possible).
+ At least make sure braces do not sit on their own line, like with C.
+
+ - Don't abuse statement modifiers--they are discouraged. But in general:
+
+ ... do something ...
+ do_this() unless (condition);
+ ... do something else ...
+
+ should be used instead of
+
+ ... do something ...
+ unless (condition) {
+ do_this();
+ }
+ ... do something else ...
+
+ *only* when when the condition is so rare that do_this() will be called
+ almost always.
+
+ - We try to avoid assignments inside if().
+
+ - Learn and use Git.pm if you need that functionality.
+
+ - For Emacs, it's useful to put the following in
+ GIT_CHECKOUT/.dir-locals.el, assuming you use cperl-mode:
+
+ ;; note the first part is useful for C editing, too
+ ((nil . ((indent-tabs-mode . t)
+ (tab-width . 8)
+ (fill-column . 80)))
+ (cperl-mode . ((cperl-indent-level . 8)
+ (cperl-extra-newline-before-brace . nil)
+ (cperl-merge-trailing-else . t))))
+
Writing Documentation:
Every user-visible change should be reflected in the documentation.
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