Re^3: Backdating strict

That does sound like the best way forward for me...enforce strict initially one subroutine at a time then one lexical block at a time until the complete code unit has strictures enforced.

Quick question...
If I have use strict; followed by a require statement in the same block, does the code that is brought in by the require have strict applied to it - my guess is yes as it is in the same lexical block.

I can't test it right now as I am using my mobile and AFAIK there isn't a version of Perl for Android.

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Re^4: Backdating strict by jcb (Parson) on Nov 20, 2020 at 02:49 UTC
No, code brought in with use or require is its own top-level lexical scope. Explained differently, lexical scopes do not cross file boundaries in Perl; the loading mechanism is not a preprocessor. If this were not so, the common convention of making `use strict;` the first statement in a script would also apply `strict` to all library modules, but this does not happen.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Backdating strict by marto (Cardinal) on Nov 19, 2020 at 17:55 UTC
I've not used this in a while, perhaps worth checking out.	[reply]
Re^5: Backdating strict by Bod (Parson) on Nov 19, 2020 at 18:02 UTC
Thanks marto - that looks rather interesting!	[reply]
Re^5: Backdating strict by Bod (Parson) on Nov 20, 2020 at 15:46 UTC
I was right...it is very interesting and now I have a newer version of Perl - 5.32 on my mobile than I do on my laptop or webserver!!! Somehow that doesn't seem quite right but some things are best left unquestioned :) Thanks for the information marto	[reply]