I hate to say this, but there is so much crap Perl code out there on the internet in free (and paid for) CGI programs, dodgy tutorials, half-arsed postings on various forums and so forth, that barely struggles to resemble Perl 5 let alone run under 'strict' that if stricture were to become the default (and consequently all this crap code stopped working) then we would all be inconvenienced as we are inundated here (and other places people talk about perl) by the torrent of questions of the "I got this code from <replace with favourite resource of hate> and it doesn't work" variety, it would probably drown out all the other content, the more insightful posters would get bored of answering the same question over and over and would drift away, and the people left would only know enough to type no strict at the top of their programs ...

Okay perhaps I exaggerate, but you get my point.

/J\

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