Sigh. First off, I noted it as an off-the-cuff note. I didn’t think this through deeply or spend much time to present a particularly coherent argument. But it’s something that chafes me about doing OO in Perl (yes, always).

Would you argue that Perl without strict and lexicals would be… okay, let’s call it “not as adequate as Perl is now“? And would you dispute that a Perl without package globals would be “less adequate”?

That’s all I want: strict for Perl 5 OOP.

Sure, I get things done using the status quo. Inadequate doesn’t mean useless: after all, people wrote a lot of useful code in Perl 4 too, yet Perl 5 is undeniably a better language.

Mathematical purity wanking? Shrug. If that’s what you want to call it, be my guest; I shall be a wanker.

Makeshifts last the longest.