strict deals with things that almost always aren't what you want to do. But, strict robs the ability of the experienced developer to do cool things. This is why no strict; and no warnings 'blah' are there. All my Exporter modules have the following at the top: 
package Something::Or::Other;

use strict;
use warnings
no warnings 'once';

# Stuff here

1;

[download]

The 'once' item is one I don't want in a values repository. But, I don't use the no warnings 'once' item in my scripts because I should be using all my variables more than once. (If it's a repository, it should be in an Exporter module.)

The same goes double with strict. The only strict item I ever turn off is 'refs', but I turn it off a lot, in specific situations when I really do have to use soft references. But, I know why I'm using soft references and I am planning on using soft references. Everywhere else, I'm too lazy to keep track, so I want the compiler to keep track for me, so I turn strict on.

Soft references are dangerous in every situation ... just in most of them. So, if they were always errors, a lot of code wouldn't work. (Like, the code in Exporter, the most commonly used non-pragma module in Perl.)

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We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.

The idea is a little like C++ templates, except not quite so brain-meltingly complicated. -- TheDamian, Exegesis 6

... strings and arrays will suffice. As they are easily available as native data types in any sane language, ... - blokhead, speaking on evolutionary algorithms

Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.

In reply to Re: Learn from what's out there! by dragonchild
in thread use sloppy ;-) by cLive ;-)

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