Re^3: [off-site] Perl snippets at Microsoft

The absence of strict, warnings, and taint don't necessarily imply a bad script.

No, it doesn't. Each is useful for different purposes.

strict is useful is you plan on ever making a change to the thing as it will decrease the time you need to do so safely.
warnings is useful is you are a less-experienced developer.
taint is useful if you are taking information from an untrusted source.

Of these three, I would add strict and taint. Warnings are ... annoying in production code. I take it out in my CPAN stuff. I would add taint because I'm not sure what Win32::OLE is going to return to me. I'd like to see if Perl trusts it before I do.

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