I put the strict there even when using 5.12 or above because it documents what’s going on, and because I alas find myself downgrading to 5.10.1 now and again, and don’t want to lose things.

In general, I’m for several reasons opposed to non‐pragmas diddling their caller’s scope’s lexical hints in non‐obvious ways unrelated to that module’s purpose; that’s just too Acme:: for my tastes. But I do consider use 5.012 a pragma — that is, a compiler declaration that can alter the rules of engagement.

And no, the necessary binmoding of DATA is triggered neither by use utf8 nor by use open ":utf8". Go figger. 😾

I have as little to do with UTF‑16 as I possibly can. 🙈 🙉 🙊 Anything that makes me deal with individual code units is such a lose that I just want to kick the people who afflicted the world with this idiocy. Aren’t you glad we don’t have to count code units in Perl? 😹

I see my stalker is back. Yawn!

In reply to Re^5: 'use' inside or outside of package declaration? by tchrist
in thread 'use' inside or outside of package declaration? by John M. Dlugosz

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