Exactly. When/If we do a major version bump, we might as well make it easier for newcomers to the language.

In my opinion, there are very few cases where "no strict" is useful - and pretty much everyone experienced enough to play around with those would "use strict" at the beginning of their code anyway and use the "no strict" directive in a narrow scope.

And yes, i agree, making "use strict; use warnings;" the default might break some code. But frankly, if it doesn't work in strict mode, it's probably already broken beyond repair, just nobody has noticed because strict and warnings weren't turned on ;-)

Heck, we might even throw in an automatic "use English" and change the docs to show that using the english name rather than cryptic stuff like "$!" is the way of the future.

perl -e 'use MIME::Base64; print decode_base64("4pmsIE5ldmVyIGdvbm5hIGdpdmUgeW91IHVwCiAgTmV2ZXIgZ29ubmEgbGV0IHlvdSBkb3duLi4uIOKZqwo=");'

In reply to Re^4: If Perl 5 were to become Perl 7, what (backward-compatible) features would you want to see? by cavac
in thread If Perl 5 were to become Perl 7, what (backward-compatible) features would you want to see? by haukex

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