NAME

       Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitImplicitNewlines - Use concatenation or HEREDOCs
       instead of literal line breaks in strings.

AFFILIATION

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

DESCRIPTION

       Strings with embedded line breaks are hard to read.  Use concatenation or HEREDOCs instead.

           my $foo = "Line one is quite long
           Line two";                                    # Bad

           my $foo = "Line one is quite long\nLine two"; # Better, but still hard to read

           my $foo = "Line one is quite long\n"
               . "Line two";                               # Better still

           my $foo = <<'EOF';                            # Use heredoc for longer passages
           Line one is quite long
           Line two
           Line three breaks the camel's back
           EOF

CONFIGURATION

       This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.

AUTHOR

       Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

CREDITS

       Initial development of this policy was supported by a grant from the Perl Foundation.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Chris Dolan.  Many rights reserved.

       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.

perl v5.36.0                                       2023-10-27             Perl::Critic::P...mplicitNewlines(3pm)