Hi there,

I think making the use warnings and use strict a default for Perl 6 would be a generally good idea.

Code that doesn't need them can always say "no strict; no warnings" (no need for a "lenient" pragma) and a couple of handy command line switches like -w (for "no warnings", reuse is good, people get used after a while, after all) and -f (not in use, for "no strict"; f from "fool the strictness of the compiler", if not a blatant "i want to be a fool") would do for one-liners.

Power is good. Raw power in the hands of newbies or incompetent is a shotgun aiming at their feet. Considering everybody in the higher spheres recommends always using strict and warnings, this is a logical step to pursue. If you know what you are doing (TheDamian et al.) you can turn it off the same way they do it nowadays, but instead of inside a little { block } to mangle with the symbols table, for the whole program/package if they want: it's there, they use it when they know they can. The newbies will just have to wait until they know better, which is a Good Thing, IMHO.

Best regards,

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In reply to Re: Re: Requiring use strict by Excalibor
in thread Requiring use strict by Wassercrats

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