To be honest I dont buy this skilled person argument. I do a lot of perl. Occassionally I leave it out of my code and then get bitten. Every time. When I have strange results its the first thing I check.

I personally would have no problem if the input boxes came preloaded with the code block AND a nice 

use warnings; 
use strict;

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Honestly I think I agree with the perldocs that it is a bug that perl does not have these set by default, as you can always negate them as in the infamous 

no strict 'refs';

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Even the old hands from what Ive seen in the modules work under strict and warnings, and probably wouldnt mind much at all if they were present.
Yves

In reply to Re: Re: use strict and warnings for newbes by demerphq
in thread use strict and warnings for newbes by John M. Dlugosz

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