NAME
    criticism - Perl pragma to enforce coding standards and best-practices

SYNOPSIS
      use criticism;

      use criticism 'gentle';
      use criticism 'stern';
      use criticism 'harsh';
      use criticism 'cruel';
      use criticism 'brutal';

DESCRIPTION
    This pragma enforces coding standards and promotes best-practices by
    running your file through Perl::Critic before every execution. In a
    production system, this usually isn't feasible because it adds a lot of
    overhead at start-up. If you have a separate development environment,
    you can effectively bypass the "criticism" pragma by not installing
    Perl::Critic in the production environment. If Perl::Critic can't be
    loaded, then "criticism" just fails silently.

    Alternatively, the "perlcritic" command-line (which is distributed with
    Perl::Critic) can be used to analyze your files on-demand and has some
    additional configuration features. And Test::Perl::Critic provides a
    nice interface for analyzing files during the build process.

CONFIGURATION
    The import argument is a named equivalent to the numeric severity levels
    in Perl::Critic. For example, "use criticism 'gentle';" reports only the
    most dangerous violations. On the other hand, "use criticism 'brutal';"
    reports every violation. If the import argument is not defined, it
    defaults to 'gentle'.

    The "criticism" pragma will obey whatever configurations you have set in
    your .perlcriticrc file. See "CONFIGURATION" in Perl::Critic for more
    details.

DIAGNOSTICS
    Usually, the "criticism" pragma fails silently. But if you set the
    "DEBUG" environment variable to a true value or run your program under
    the Perl debugger, you will get a warning when "criticism" fails to load
    Perl::Critic.

NOTES
    The "criticism" pragma applies to the entire file, so it is not affected
    by scope or package boundaries and "use"-ing it multiple times will just
    cause it to repeatedly process the same file. There isn't a reciprocal
    "no criticism" pragma. However, Perl::Critic does support a
    pseudo-pragma that directs it to overlook certain lines or blocks of
    code. See "BENDING THE RULES" in Perl::Critic for more details.

AUTHOR
    Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <thaljef@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2006 Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer. All rights reserved.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license can
    be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.