in reply to to strict or not to strict

strict catches my tyops before the program even starts running (in a manner of speaking). So anything over 5 or 10 lines gets strict. Unless I really need symbolic references, that is. But then, my name's not Damian, so I don't need them very often :-)

Update: I only remember using symrefs once.

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Re: Re: to strict or not to strict
by thelenm (Vicar) on Oct 16, 2003 at 22:23 UTC

    And of course, if you really did need symbolic refs, one of the great things about strict (and warnings too) is that you can disable it locally:

    use strict;
# symbolic refs are disallowed here
{
    no strict 'refs';
    # use symbolic refs as much as you like here
}
# symbolic refs are disallowed here too

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