Thanks very much, Dave.

The situation I'm thinking of is when you've got a handful of people working on a given project, with questionable or little leadership, where one or more of the team are hot-doggers who like to bang out a major feature overnight leaving behind some dodgy ("but it works!!") code that everyone else now has to document and maintain.

For this situation, it sounds like using Test::Perl::Critic on the dev server (and requiring that all code use warnings FATAL all) might be the way to go. As long as you can get everyone to agree on it beforehand.

In reply to Re^2: Is there any way to shut off deprecated, dangerous, dilapidated, or otherwise undesirable language features? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Is there any way to shut off deprecated, dangerous, dilapidated, or otherwise undesirable language features? by Anonymous Monk

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