Re^2: A short whishlist of Perl5 improvements leaping to Perl7 (used only once)

> Not really, it lets perl catch typos, for example if you have $the_variable_I_want_to_check = 0; somewhere in your code and then $the_varaible_I_want_to_check = 1; later, using strict and my will raise an error at compile time. Python would just silently allow it.

should be mentioned that Perl has an "used only once" warning, I'm surprised that python doesn't.

> Also having automine would mean that using perl 5 code that wasn't written with strict would compile, but turn package variable into lexicals.

automine or whatever we'd call it must obviously be a pragma extending strict, not a default feature. New pragmas breaking old code is no surprise.

update

looks like used-only-once gets deactivated with explicit declaration

#use strict;
use warnings;

my $the_variable_I_want_to_check = 0;

# somewhere in your code and then

$the_varaible_I_want_to_check = 1;
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C:/Perl_524/bin\perl.exe -w d:/tmp/pm/t_typo.pl 
Name "main::the_varaible_I_want_to_check" used only once: possible typ
+o at d:/tmp/pm/t_typo.pl line 8.
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Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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Re^3: A short whishlist of Perl5 improvements leaping to Perl7 (used only once) by tobyink (Canon) on Nov 27, 2020 at 22:41 UTC
"looks like used-only-once gets deactivated with explicit declaration" Lexical variables and variables beginning with an underscore never trigger that warning. toby döt ink	[reply]
Re^4: A short whishlist of Perl5 improvements leaping to Perl7 (used only once) by LanX (Saint) on Nov 27, 2020 at 23:32 UTC
or declared with `our` or a special identifier or the symbol/type-glob was already used (i.e. @x and $x) perldiag#used only once: possible typo `#use strict; use warnings; $x=1; @x=(2); my $the_variable_I_want_to_check = 3; our $the_varaible_I_want_to_check = 4; $^A=5;` [download] no warnings! Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: A short whishlist of Perl5 improvements leaping to Perl7 (used only once) by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Nov 28, 2020 at 12:50 UTC
should be mentioned that Perl has an "used only once" warning True, but (in the context of this thread) even that would only save you from unique typos. Make the same typo twice and the typoed name is no longer "used only once".	[reply]
Re^4: A short whishlist of Perl5 improvements leaping to Perl7 (used only once) by LanX (Saint) on Nov 28, 2020 at 12:57 UTC
Sure, but there is always a risk assessment in life ... ... there is no vaccination against car accidents! On a side note: Repeated typos happen for me when I use auto-completion in my IDE. But if I already have an IDE I can run a linter on the fly warning me from names with close Levenshtein distance. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]