Thank you all for your comments. I think I should clarify that I probably didn't mean that none of strict, warnings, logging etc. should be used in production. But I do think that many people have different configurations for dev versus production.

I can only really speak for myself, so in my case, in production, I use strict, but no warnings or diagnostics (e.g. in libraries). I set logging (Log::Log4perl) to 'warn' rather than 'info' or 'debug'. For cgi programming, I like to have fatals go to the browser when debugging, but not when the site is in production. The idea was that you could switch easily between such different configurations.

I like the suggestion of using environment variables to specify what these configurations are, thanks.

In reply to Re^2: RFC: pragma 'use dev;' by rvosa
in thread RFC: pragma 'use dev;' by rvosa

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