Greetings monks,

A goodly portion of all new Seekers of Perl Wisdom posts seem to have as their first reply, that the poster should have added 

use strict;
use warnings;

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at the top of their code before submitting the question to SoPW. This makes sense, since in many cases that would have given the right clues as to how to fix the problem.

So, how about having the SoPW input box give a gentle nudge/reminder in this direction - something to the effect of "Before submitting your question, have you made your program use strict and/or warnings?".

Currently these are the only reminders:

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Thoughts?

...Guv

In reply to Automatic reminder to use strict in new SoPW posts... by theguvnor

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