Re: perlcritic: prohibit map and grep in void conext

> On 28 Jul 2021, at 13:10, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> 
> On 7/27/21 12:06 PM, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
>> Hi hackers,
>> 
>> In the patches for improving the MSVC build process, I noticed a use of
>> `map` in void context.  This is considered bad form, and has a
>> perlcritic policy forbidding it:
>> https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitVoidMap.
>> 
>> Attached is a patch that increases severity of that and the
>> corresponding `grep` policy to 5 to enable it in our perlcritic policy,
>> and fixes the one use that had already snuck in.
> 
> Personally I'm OK with it, but previous attempts to enforce perlcritic
> policies have met with a less than warm reception, and we had to back
> off. Maybe this one will fare better.

I'm fine with increasing this policy, but I don't have strong feelings.  If we
feel the perlcritic policy change is too much, I would still prefer to go ahead
with the map rewrite part of the patch though.

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