I'm putting 
use 5.10.1;
use utf8;

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as the very first things. I'm not afraid of very old perls not liking the dotted syntax since the installer already checked the version once. I agree, this documents the version I wrote it under and tested it under, and can ensure some backward compatibility if even newer ones changed things.

The meaning of utf8 in modern versions is simply to state that the source file is UTF-8. That really really affects the entire file, not a block, not a package.

Based on what I learned on this thread, I'll put other stuff after the module's package line. I'm trying autodie for example, and I had supposed that to be more global and not per-package, but it was on your list.

As for the referenced ranteditorial concerning warnings in production servers, I think that ought to be fixed once and for all in the logging system. Just piping stderr to a file and archiving that file is rather brute simple. I've worked on systems where logging was more engineered. At the very least it has quotas with purging so it won't fill up the disk!

In reply to Re^2: 'use' inside or outside of package declaration? by John M. Dlugosz
in thread 'use' inside or outside of package declaration? by John M. Dlugosz

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