.\" -*- mode: troff; coding: utf-8 -*- .\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 5.01 (Pod::Simple 3.43) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Vb \" Begin verbatim text .ft CW .nf .ne \\$1 .. .de Ve \" End verbatim text .ft R .fi .. .\" \*(C` and \*(C' are quotes in nroff, nothing in troff, for use with C<>. .ie n \{\ . ds C` "" . ds C' "" 'br\} .el\{\ . ds C` . ds C' 'br\} .\" .\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" .\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. .\" .\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'. .de IX .. .nr rF 0 .if \n(.g .if rF .nr rF 1 .if (\n(rF:(\n(.g==0)) \{\ . if \nF \{\ . de IX . tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" .. . if !\nF==2 \{\ . nr % 0 . nr F 2 . \} . \} .\} .rr rF .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "Perl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProhibitNestedSubs 3pm" .TH Perl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProhibitNestedSubs 3pm 2023-07-26 "perl v5.38.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH NAME Perl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProhibitNestedSubs \- "sub never { sub correct {} }". .SH AFFILIATION .IX Header "AFFILIATION" This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution. .SH DESCRIPTION .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" \&\fBAttention would-be clever Perl writers (including Younger RJBS):\fR .PP This does not do what you think: .PP .Vb 7 \& sub do_something { \& ... \& sub do_subprocess { \& ... \& } \& ... \& } .Ve .PP \&\f(CWdo_subprocess()\fR is global, despite where it is declared. Either write your subs without nesting or use anonymous code references. .SH CONFIGURATION .IX Header "CONFIGURATION" This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options. .SH NOTE .IX Header "NOTE" Originally part of Perl::Critic::Tics. .SH AUTHOR .IX Header "AUTHOR" Ricardo SIGNES .SH COPYRIGHT .IX Header "COPYRIGHT" Copyright (c) 2007\-2011 Ricardo SIGNES. .PP This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.