I dunno, I found it very easy to understand what the Anonymonk meant. Is it up to a module author to blow up a script that its consumer may have written dangerously? For whatever reason, some people (ill-advisedly) write code without strict, and it works. If that code loads the OP's module, it will cease to work. That seems simple.

I'm reading the AM's post in detail for the third time now and I'm sorry, but I think your interpretation is reaching a bit. The AM may have been attempting to make a comment about whether modules should enable strict in the user's code or not - but that's not what the node says, instead, it says "[the user's] latent source-code compile-time bugs now kill [the module]", which of course is nonsense, and that makes it impossible to tell whether this is miscommunicated, misinformed, or trolling. (Considering the discussion that broke out over it, if it's the latter, they were successful.)

My own opinion on the matter is simple, everyone is free to write their code however they like, whether their choices are to their disadvantage or (hopefully) advantage, and a module author is free to enable strict in the user's code (assuming they document it), and the user is free to use or not use the module or, if they disagree or are forced to work without strict e.g. because they're on a legacy codebase, they can write no strict after loading the module.

In reply to Re^4: Exporting use strict/warnings into main:: by haukex
in thread Exporting use strict/warnings into main:: by nysus

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