Using -w on the command line will turn on warning for the script AND for modules (unless they explicitely turn them off).

Geez--call me stupid... but this doesn't seem to do it for me. I've got a simple perl module Foo.pm that exports a single function, foobar()

Package Foo;
require Exporter;

our @ISA        = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT     = qw($foo foobar);

$foo = "bar";

sub foobar
{
    $blah = "hi";
    print "$foo $blah\n";
}

1;

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I wrote a perl script (foo.pl) that imports Foo.pm: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Foo qw(foobar);
$bar = "hi";    
foobar();

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I inserted stuff in both the .pl and the .pm files that should generate warnings to test this. (Running foo.pl with no warnings is clean, expectedly.) So, I run: 

perl -w foo.pl

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and sure enough, I get a warning in my foo.pl script, but I do not get a warning for the $blah = "hi"; line in Foo.pm. If I add "use warnings;" to the top of Foo.pm as well, then yes, I do get a warning for Foo.pm. But, this goes against what you said: that "perl -w" should propagate the warnings to all the modules... what am I missing?

dan

ps. On another note entirely, "use strict;" in the module complains about $bar, which is exported. This is how the doc says to do it, and I see no other resource that says differently.

Dan Heller
http://www.danheller.com

In reply to Re^3: scope of "use strict"? (needed: "superstrict") by argv
in thread scope of "use strict"? (needed: "superstrict") by argv

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