in reply to Is it time for 'use stricter'?

Non jokingly, Perl 6 will have wonderful support for a general sense of 'use stricter'.

In two words: type inferrence.

If you annotate your code with types, and further annotate subs as inferrable, and use a pragma for this saftey (sounds like a lot, but really isn't), then you get compile time errors for bad usage of data.

Other safety features Perl 6 has been designed with include:

So in a sense, yes, it's time for 'use stricter' (optional, ofcourse), but at a level entirely orthogonal to (and an order of magnitude more significant and important than) style.

-nuffin
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