Not that I like the idea, but if.pm can do this. use if (not grep {/--nostrict/} @ARGV), 'strict'; if.pm ships with recent perl, but works with long-gone ones too, where it can be installed from CPAN.

Added - You should use Getopt::Long or something to remove that flag from @ARGV before you start processing input files. With a $nostrict flag set by that, your users can take advantage of all that freedom with things like, 

goto I_LIKE_MY_VARIABLES_STEALTHED_AND_GLOBAL if $nostrict;
my ($foo, @bar, %baz);
I_LIKE_MY_VARIABLES_STEALTHED_AND_GLOBAL:

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I'm a little puzzled, btw. What sort of perl programs are you providing your users that they have to care about strict or even know about it?

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: make "use strict" optional? by Zaxo
in thread make "use strict" optional? by twdog

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