Re: pgsql: Perl scripts: eliminate "Useless interpolation" warnings

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Perl scripts: eliminate "Useless interpolation" warnings
Date: 2024-09-15 22:07:21
Message-ID: 42f2242a-422b-4aa3-8d60-d67b229c4a52@dunslane.net
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On 2024-09-15 Su 4:36 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 04:33:49PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> I understand perfectly what the warning is about.
>>
>> But the project's perlcritic policy is expressed at src/tools/perlcheck/
>> perlcriticrc. It's basically severity 5 plus some additions and one exception.
>> We shouldn't be imposing our personal perlcritic policies on the project.
>>
>> The change isn't bad in itself, but there shouldn't be any expectation that we
>> will keep to this policy, as it's not required by project policy.
>>
>> There is a huge mass of perlcritic issues in our perl code at severity 1 (over
>> 13000 by my count). If we're going to clean them up (which I would oppose) we
>> should do it in a systematic way. It's hard to see why this one is special.
> I guess it is special only because my policy is more strict so I wanted
> my new code to match. Should I revert it?

Yes I think so.

> Is the very tiny improvement
> not worth the churn in the code?

Yeah, I don't think it is.

cheers

andrew

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