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6 Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::ProhibitHardTabs - Use spaces instead
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10 This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.
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13 Putting hard tabs in your source code (or POD) is one of the worst
14 things you can do to your co-workers and colleagues, especially if
15 those tabs are anywhere other than a leading position. Because various
16 applications and devices represent tabs differently, they can cause you
17 code to look vastly different to other people. Any decent editor can
18 be configured to expand tabs into spaces. Perl::Tidy also does this
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21 This Policy catches all tabs in your source code, including POD,
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26 Hard tabs in a string are always forbidden (use "\t" instead). But
27 hard tabs in a leading position are allowed when they are used to
28 indent code statements, "qw()" word lists, and regular expressions with
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36 Beware that Perl::Critic may report the location of the string that
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38 to do some hunting. I'll try and fix this in the future.
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41 Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@imaginative-software.com>
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44 Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Imaginative Software Systems. All rights
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47 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
48 under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license can
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