On 7/27/21 11:01 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On 2021-Jul-28, David Rowley wrote: > >> 0003: Is a tidy up patch to make the 'includes' field an array rather >> than a string > In this one, you can avoid turning one line into four with map, > > - $p->AddIncludeDir($pl_proj->{includes}); > + foreach my $inc (@{ $pl_proj->{includes} }) > + { > + $p->AddIncludeDir($inc); > + } > > Instead of that you can do something like this: > > + map { $p->AddIncludeDir($_); } @{$pl_proj->{includes}};
using map() for a side effect like this is generally frowned upon. See <https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitVoidMap> do { $p->AddIncludeDir($_); } foreach @{$pl_proj->{includes}}; would be an ok one-liner. > >> 0004: Adds code to check for duplicate references and libraries before >> adding new ones of the same name to the project. > I think using the return value of grep as a boolean is confusing. It > seems more legible to compare to 0. So instead of this: > > + if (! grep { $_ eq $ref} @{ $self->{references} }) > + { > + push @{ $self->{references} }, $ref; > + } > > use something like: > > + if (grep { $_ eq $ref} @{ $self->{references} } == 0) > But I believe that's a widely used idiom :-) cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com