I have a file that we're including via C<do>. I've has a request to impose strictness and warnings on that file. Warnings are easy ($^W); but stricness is more difficult.

I could obviously slurp the file into a string and prepend a "use strict;" declaration before eval-ing it. I'd have to fix-up the filename in any error messages ("eval 347" is not a very meaningful), but it would be do-able.

The other way I can think of is to do the same prepending, but do it by messing with the filename passed to C<do>: 

  do qq(cat $filename | perl -ple 'BEGIN { print "use strict;" }');

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This doesn't seem ideal, either. Is there a simpler way?

--Dave
Opinions my own; statements of fact may be in error.

In reply to imposing "strict" on an included file by dpuu

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