Re: perlcritic and perltidy

On 05/08/2018 01:18 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> * Andrew Dunstan (andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
>> On 05/08/2018 12:51 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>>> * Andrew Dunstan (andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
>>> There's not much point adding the ',' unless you're also putting the
>>> ');' on the next line, is there..?
>> No, not really.
>>
>>> Or is that going to be handled in a follow-up patch?
>> No, the current proposal is to keep the vertical tightness settings for
>> parentheses, which is precisely this set of cases, because otherwise
>> there are some ugly code efects (see Peter's email upthread)
>>
>> So I think we're all in agreement to fortget this trailing comma thing.
> Well, agreed, for parentheses, but for curly-brace blocks, it'd be nice to
> have them since those will end up on their own line, right?
>

Yes, but there isn't a perlcritic policy I can find that detects them
reliably. If you know of one we can revisit it. Specifically, the one
from the Pulp collection called RequireTrailingCommaAtNewline didn't
work very well when I tried it.

cheers

andrew

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