Background

I'm doing some testing of Perl::Dist::APPerl on various platforms. I have a test script which currently checks that 'use v5.36;' enables the warnings pragma and features are enabled or disabled as appropriate.

Question

I'm looking for a platform-independent way to determine if the strict pragma is in effect without forcing an abort.

If strict is specifically used, it can be determined from %INC: 

ken@titan ~/tmp
$ perl -e 'use strict; print "$_\n" for keys %INC;'
strict.pm

ken@titan ~/tmp
$ perl -e 'use strict; my $x = xyz;'
Bareword "xyz" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at -e line 1.
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

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However, if strict is enabled automatically via use VERSION (where VERSION >= 5.12), this method doesn't work: 

ken@titan ~/tmp
$ perl -e 'use 5.012; print "$_\n" for keys %INC;'

ken@titan ~/tmp
$ perl -e 'use 5.012; my $x = xyz;'
Bareword "xyz" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at -e line 1.
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

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Any help with this would be appreciated. Thankyou.

— Ken

In reply to How to determine if 'strict' is enabled by kcott

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