eduardo's thread explorations of consciousness and symbolic references...
might give you new insight into the 'strict' controversy

personally, i'd love to use strict but there are things
that i can't do with it on (i've tried)

i always try to use it for the first few lines of a
proggie but wind up turning it off to get the job done

i'd love to send my code to a perl clinic, so i could learn
how to do those things (and i try that here from time to time ;)
but i worry about treadding to close to the line on my NDA

Update:

after an email discussion with dave (i tried to include jjhorner but to no avail), i've
got to admit that i was wrong. my being limited to non-strict code was a limitation of my
own in how to use global variables

eduardo's node did however make me feel better about not knowing how to do it tho' ;)

thanks to dave fo going through a mighty heafty chunk of code, his responses are about
to spawn another thread