G'day stevieb,

"Is this documented anywhere ikegami?"

I looked this up after ++ikegami's response. See caller for element-8, $hints, and subsequent discussion. See "strict's source code" for the numbers (0x2, 0x200, and 0x400).

And especially $^H is enlightening, too.
Each time a statement completes being compiled, the current value of $^H is stored with that statement, and can later be retrieved via (caller($level))[8]

so it also depends at what time you need to check the strictness.

Cheers Rolf
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