But, don't use the commandline flags in a production script! Good Gods, man, are you trying to get the OP to write obfuscated code?!? Who looks at the shebang line?
Well, I think that -l is safe enough in short enough scripts. So it all depends on how short the production script will be, and of course a "production script", whatever it could be, tends to give the idea of being a rather longish thing, or if it is not, it's still likely to grow into one, so I think that you're right in the vast majority of cases.

I think I have a tendency to overuse -l myself, because I like not to have to include literal newlines. But then when I want both this and to be safe I do 

{
    local $\="\n";  # or $/, if it's not been changed...
    print whatever;
    print something_else;
    # ...
}

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Of course if we had Perl6's say() we wouldn't be bothered, but then someone will certainly point out that we already have a module for that. OTOH, IMHO it could easily leak into the core in some next major perl5 release, couldn't it?

In reply to Re^4: printing a scalar as an array by blazar
in thread printing a scalar as an array by Anonymous Monk

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