On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 12:13:08PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > --- a/src/tools/msvc/Project.pm > +++ b/src/tools/msvc/Project.pm > @@ -420,13 +420,10 @@ sub read_file > { > my $filename = shift; > my $F; > - my $t = $/; > - > - undef $/; > + local $/ = undef; > open($F, '<', $filename) || croak "Could not open file $filename\n"; > my $txt = <$F>; > close($F); > - $/ = $t;
+1 for this and for the other three hunks like it. The resulting code is shorter and more robust, so this is a good one-time cleanup. It's not important to mandate this style going forward, so I wouldn't change perlcriticrc for this one. > --- a/src/tools/version_stamp.pl > +++ b/src/tools/version_stamp.pl > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ > -#! /usr/bin/perl -w > +#! /usr/bin/perl > > ################################################################# > # version_stamp.pl -- update version stamps throughout the source tree > @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ > # > > use strict; > +use warnings; This and the other "use warnings" additions look good. I'm assuming you'd change perlcriticrc like this: +[TestingAndDebugging::RequireUseWarnings] +severity = 5