NAME

       Perl::Critic::Policy::Community::PreferredAlternatives - Various modules with preferred
       alternatives

DESCRIPTION

       Various modules have alternatives that are preferred by some subsets of the community, for
       various reasons which may include: buggy behavior, cruft, performance problems, maintainer
       issues, or simply better modern replacements.  This is a low severity complement to
       Perl::Critic::Policy::Community::DiscouragedModules.

MODULES

   Getopt::Std
       Getopt::Std was the original very simplistic command-line option processing module. It is
       now obsoleted by the much more complete solution Getopt::Long, which also supports short
       options, and is wrapped by modules such as Getopt::Long::Descriptive and
       Getopt::Long::Modern for simpler usage.

   JSON
       JSON.pm is old and full of slow logic. Use JSON::MaybeXS instead, it is a drop-in
       replacement in most cases.

   List::MoreUtils
       List::MoreUtils is a far more complex distribution than it needs to be. Use
       List::SomeUtils instead, or see List::Util or List::UtilsBy for alternatives.

   Mouse
       Mouse was created to be a faster version of Moose, a niche that has since been better
       filled by Moo. Use Moo instead.

   Readonly
       Readonly.pm is buggy and slow. Use Const::Fast or ReadonlyX instead, or the core pragma
       constant.

AFFILIATION

       This policy is part of Perl::Critic::Community.

CONFIGURATION

       Occasionally you may find yourself needing to use one of these non-preferred modules, and
       do not want the warnings.  You can do so by putting something like the following in a
       .perlcriticrc file like this:

           [Community::PreferredAlternatives]
           allowed_modules = Getopt::Std JSON

       The same option is offered for Perl::Critic::Policy::Community::DiscouragedModules.

AUTHOR

       Dan Book, "dbook@cpan.org"

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2015, Dan Book.

       This library is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the Artistic License version 2.0.

SEE ALSO

       Perl::Critic

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