I'd like to plead 'no contest', your honor.

I build some fairly decent sized Web sites (well, the code for them, anyway) and for one of them, because of the way the pages are constructed, sometimes I have a parameter or two that simply doesn't appear, due to the user's permissions. As a result, I have similar pages, generated by the same templates, handled by the same Perl code, but some parameters simply will not be there. That's why I started using constructs such as I listed. However, I realize that mine is an exceptional case and shouldn't be used by most.

Because the site is rather large, pouring over all of the code just to find those few parameters that I am surpressing warnings for seems like overkill (and I doubt I could get the client to pay for it :)

Cheers,
Ovid

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