Again, they said that no strict and no warnings are still possible.

Reverting the new defaults is possible for v7, but they explicitly said it would not necessarily be true for v8. If Perl resumes its pre-5 version pace, that's only a few years away. Even if reverting the defaults remains possible, the programs where strict and warnings are least convenient are 5-line throw-away programs run in implicit -n or -p loops, where turning them off or saying use vars qw// is just getting in the way for no benefit. For one-liners, it could mean the difference between using Perl and not bothering. I claim (and don't appear to be alone, looking at p5p), the better tradeoff is to put use v7 in a file and get all the new defaults. I already use use v5.20 or whatever in my longer scripts, so it seems totally natural, but I guess according to Sawyer almost nobody does this.

Re-watching the p7 talk now, again, I really don't like how certain patterns are labelled "bad." The Perl I know does not get overly opinionated on how I write things. These talks bother me enough to crawl out of the woodwork and ask the Monks if I'm wrong to be concerned. Maybe I am wrong.

In reply to Re^5: Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by WaywardCode
in thread Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by WaywardCode

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