stevieb,

I'm a little confused by your question!

If you are replying to a post, and the use of warnings and strictures would help the OP, then the answer should always be: Yes. I haven't written a script in the past 7-8 years that doesn't have the use statements. And when I come across something prior to that, I always add the statements and deal with any identified problems.

But if the OP is more than a newbie, and the snippet of code looks okay, then your answer/comment should be on the content of the question.

And finally if you are the OP, then I think that all monks should expect the use of warnings and strictures to be already present, and the content has to be looked at in greater detail :-)

Regards...Ed