I don't fully understand why you would want to force modules to be compiled under strictures when they weren't designed to do so. As others have pointed out, this has the potential of generating lots of errors, and many of them will point to perfectly legitimate code, since it's possible to create bug-free code that isn't strict-compliant.

But I thought it sounded like a fun little challenge, so in the spirit of "give them what they ask for" here is a little snippet that will test-compile every module in the dependancy heirarchy of your script with strictures enforced:

use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::CaptureOutput qw/capture_exec/;

my( $stdout, $stderr ) = capture_exec( 
    'perl',
    '-d:Modlist=nocore,stop,path,noversion',
    $ARGV[0] 
);

my( @modules ) = split /\n/, $stderr;

foreach my $module ( @modules ) {
    my( $stdout, $stderr ) = capture_exec(
        'perl',
        '-Mstrict',
        '-c',
        $module
    );
    print "Module: $module\n\tSTDOUT = $stdout\n\tSTDERR = $stderr\n";
}

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This snippet requires Devel::Modlist, and IO::CaptureOutput. They aren't core, so you'll probably have to install them. Then run it like this:

perl stricttester.pl yourcode.pl >output.log

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Then examine what you get in output.log. Every module that is strictures-compliant, and that is otherwise free from compiletime problems will compile "ok", and every module that isn't will give you a bunch of error messages.
It actually works really slick.

Enjoy!


Dave

In reply to Re: scope of "use strict"? (needed: "superstrict") by davido
in thread scope of "use strict"? (needed: "superstrict") by argv

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