I never use 5.016; or any other version, simply because most of my servers run CentOS 5.x and the Perl that came with that distro, namely 5.10.something. In which case, use 5.016; would prevent me from running my scripts. Unless your scripts require 5.016 (or any other particular version, you should leave it out. It's not there to tell Perl what version it is. Perl already knows that perfectly well.

As for my, that's actually a something you actively enforce upon yourself by including use strict; if you want Perl to help you prevent many of the typical errors that can cause hard-to-find bugs in your code. It's really convenient and you'll find it's considered all but mandatory by most Perl monks, but at the end of the day it is optional. If you really want to run with those scissors, you're free to do so.

...just please don't ask me to debug that code for you ;-)

-- FloydATC

Time flies when you don't know what you're doing

In reply to Re: Make $^V and "my" implicit by FloydATC
in thread Make $^V and "my" implicit by gunzip

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