# Perl-Critic-Policy-CodeLayout-ProhibitMethodCallsWithEmptyParentheses

**Repository Path**: mirrors_maxmind/Perl-Critic-Policy-CodeLayout-ProhibitMethodCallsWithEmptyParentheses

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: Perl-Critic-Policy-CodeLayout-ProhibitMethodCallsWithEmptyParentheses
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: markf/initial
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

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- **Created**: 2020-09-25
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-31

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## README

# NAME

Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::ProhibitMethodCallsWithEmptyParentheses - Policy to find empty parentheses on method calls

# VERSION

version 1.000000

# DESCRIPTION

This policy detects if you make a method call with parentheses but with
no parameters.

For example these will cause a violation:

    $foo->bar();
    $foo->bar->baz();

Where these will not:

    $foo->bar;
    $foo->bar->baz;
    $foo->bar( $baz );
    $foo->bar( baz => $buzz );

# CONFIGURATION

There is no configuration for this policy.

# VERSIONING POLICY

This module uses semantic versioning as described by
[http://semver.org/](http://semver.org/). Version numbers can be read as X.YYYZZZ, where X is the
major number, YYY is the minor number, and ZZZ is the patch number..

# SUPPORT

Please report all issues with this code using the GitHub issue tracker at
[https://github.com/maxmind/Perl-Critic-Policy-CodeLayout-ProhibitMethodCallsWithEmptyParentheses/issues](https://github.com/maxmind/Perl-Critic-Policy-CodeLayout-ProhibitMethodCallsWithEmptyParentheses/issues).

# AUTHOR

Mark Fowler <mfowler@maxmind.com>

# COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by MaxMind, Inc..

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.