On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 02:13:51PM -0700, John SJ Anderson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@kathe.in> wrote: > > > A pseudo-tangential question; > > Under the platform, I could do "apt-get install perltidy" to install > > perltidy, but there's nothing similar for perlcritic. > > Is perlcritic packaged under a different name? or is there a different > > way to install it? > > You can install the module Perl::Critic using the CPAN client of your choice. > > I think at the point in learning the language that you're at, this is > not something that you need to worry about just yet. Once you have > learned enough to know what your choice of CPAN client _is_, then you > can investigate Perl::Critic. > > You should also know that, Shawn's endorsement not withstanding, many > people consider the advice given in Perl Best Practices to be a bit of > a mixed bag. There are some good tips in there, but they're mixed in > with a bunch of fairly strongly opinionated directions and some stuff > that's just badly outdated at this point in time. > > At the point where you are, I would focus more on the material in > either Ovid's book or in _Learning Perl_, and leave the worrying about > "best practices" and things like perltidy and perlcritic for down the > road. > > Good luck with your learning, and please feel free to ask additional > questions on the list as you encounter things you don't understand.
Yes, I guess, I'm still *very* new to Perl to do any of the best practices thing, will investigate Perl::Critic a while later. :) I think I'll start off with "Learning Perl", looks good from my point of view. John, thanks for the tips and support, much appreciated. :) ~Mayuresh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
