Perl-Critic VS perl5

The perlcritic tool is often your first defense against “awkward, hard to read, error-prone, or unconventional constructs in your code,” per its description. It’s part of a class of programs historically known as linters, so-called because like a clothes dryer machine’s lint trap, they “detect small errors with big effects.” (Another such linter is perltidy, which I’ve referenced in the past.)

I gathered that at least the release of this policy would benefit somebody, since Nathan had proposed changes and another user had commented on my PR. So instead of laying dormant in a PR queue I could just release the policies as stand-alone policies.

I was not signed into GitHub. I opened the permalink and it displayed fine. I opened the raw page in another tab; it was fine.

Nothing to do with a fixing the trap, it turns out: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/4197fe35a33e6471f8f532abfd06cd6c120f180e which leads to https://rt.perl.org/perl5/Ticket/Display.html?id=109408

As we mentioned last week, this week we are working on a portable, symbolic link implementation that also works on Windows. You can see our progress here. To implement this, the Perl win32/win32.c source code would be greatly appreciated.