Well, this certainly is a strange thought, but strange thoughts are what perl is about, and I kind of like this one. There isn't any reason to assume that perl by default gets the right level of finickiness... most of us prefer to turn on use strict; pretty early in the development process, but I think there's a certain logic to providing a use sloppy; pragma for people who are into it.

Of course, there are undoubtably some major hassles with implementing this kind of thing, and it probably isn't really worth doing, but still, I don't see any reason to jump down the fellow's throat about it...