NAME

       Perl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProtectPrivateSubs - Prevent access to private subs 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.

       The subroutines in the POSIX package which begin with an underscore (e.g. "POSIX::_POSIX_ARG_MAX") are
       not flagged as errors by this policy.

CONFIGURATION

       You can define what a private subroutine name looks like by specifying a regular expression for the
       "private_name_regex" option in your .perlcriticrc:

           [Subroutines::ProtectPrivateSubs]
           private_name_regex = _(?!_)\w+

       The above example is a way of saying that subroutines that start with a double underscore are not
       considered to be private.  (Perl::Critic, in its implementation, uses leading double underscores to
       indicate a distribution-private subroutine-- one that is allowed to be invoked by other Perl::Critic
       modules, but not by anything outside of Perl::Critic.)

       You can configure additional subroutines to accept by specifying them in a space-delimited list to the
       "allow" option:

           [Subroutines::ProtectPrivateSubs]
           allow = FOO::_bar FOO::_baz

       These are added to the default list of exemptions from this policy.  Allowing a subroutine also allows
       the corresponding method call. So "FOO::_bar" in the above example allows both "FOO::_bar()" and
       "FOO->_bar()".

HISTORY

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

BUGS

       Doesn't forbid "$pkg->_foo()" because it can't tell the difference between that and "$self->_foo()".

SEE ALSO

       Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProtectPrivateVars

AUTHOR

       Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2006-2011 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.

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