Once you're in the habit of using them, ALWAYS, they will do more at a fundamental level to improve the discipline of your programming than anything else I know of!

I have to disagree here. Completely.

I do generally think using warnings and strict is a good idea, especially for people who are relatively new to Perl. I don't, however, think that doing so will improve your programming at a fundamental level at all. In fact, it could be argued that strict and warnings will make you lazier because, well, you don't have to catch those errors if perl is going to catch them for you. More to the point, though, all they can do is help you catch some common errors... like typos, for instance. That's not going to result in programming improvement.

They don't...

The only things they do help with are generally the problems that are easiest to fix anyway.

I agree that they are useful tools but that's it.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

In reply to Re: warnings and strict -- The 2 Best Ways You Can Improve Your Programming by sauoq
in thread warnings and strict -- The 2 Best Ways You Can Improve Your Programming by liverpole

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