NAME¶

Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProtectPrivateVars - Prevent access to private vars in other packages.

AFFILIATION¶

This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.

DESCRIPTION¶

By convention Perl authors (like authors in many other languages) indicate private methods and variables by inserting a leading underscore before the identifier. This policy catches attempts to access private variables from outside the package itself.

CONFIGURATION¶

This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.

HISTORY¶

This policy is inspired by a similar test in B::Lint

SEE ALSO¶

Perl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProtectPrivateSubs

AUTHOR¶

Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Chris Dolan.

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.