Re: cleaning perl code

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:44 AM Andrew Dunstan
<andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> We currently only run perlcritic at severity level 5, which is fairly
> permissive. I'd like to reduce that, ideally to, say, level 3, which is
> what I use for the buildfarm code.
>
> But let's start by going to severity level 4.

I continue to be skeptical of perlcritic. I think it complains about a
lot of things which don't matter very much. We should consider whether
the effort it takes to keep it warning-clean has proportionate
benefits.

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