If we've admonished for so many years to (almost) always use "my" variables for proper scoping surely it is now time to makey "my" implicit?
Time to implicitly require my? Sure. That's already been done. If you request the current Perl standards, it turns on strict, too.

Time to make my itself implicit? Nope. It's not time now and it never will be. The fact that you ask the question at all suggests to me that you have greatly misunderstood the purpose (and benefits) of my. 

use strict;

my $width = 800;
if ($height == 768) {
  $with = 1024;
}

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This blows up, as it should, because I misspelled $width as $with. If we remove my by somehow "making it implicit", then how is Perl to know that $with is a typo rather than a new variable? That's not a "special case", it's a core benefit of strict.

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

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