All equally bad analogies. See 403503 for a better one.

The first thing is that strict isn't "training equipment", it's safety equipment. F1/NASCAR/Rally drivers all wear crash hats, seat belts & nomex. So do fighter pilots, firefighters, soldiers, sailors, builders, minors, surveyors....

Nobody, least of all me, was suggesting that strict should be mandatory--just the default. Able to be disabled either by configuration at build time, or by command line/shebang line/PERL5OPTS/no strict at runtime. It would be disabled for -e also.

For those with the confidence (misplaced or not), to code without it, would be entirely at liberty to do so with the most minimum of effort. Those with the knowledge to make that decision, would know how to make it. Those rare few that need the last ounce of performance would be capable of getting it, for the sake of however many microseconds it would take to interpret and not load the module transparently.

It wouldn't change the language, reduce it's power, or it's performance one iota.

The only effect of the change would be that those who have not yet aquired enough knowledge to know how (or why) to gain it's protection and assistance, would get it by default.

Should safety catches be removed from guns because "safety is for whooses"?

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In reply to Re^6: Why isn't C<use strict> the default? by BrowserUk
in thread Why isn't C<use strict> the default? by BrowserUk

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