strict-compliant code on windows

Simple modification to the use strict pragma makes virtually any ActiveState Perl program strict compliant.

#!c:/perl/bin/perl -w

use Strict;  # instead of 'use strict'
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Now your code should pass without any compilation errors. What a clever trick. ;)

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Re (tilly) 1: strict-compliant code on windows by tilly (Archbishop) on Jan 22, 2001 at 10:29 UTC
For people who didn't get the joke, on Windows looking for "Strict" will find "strict.pm" so the require that is part of use will work. However you will then `import Strict;` which won't work so well because there is no function Strict::import. There is a strict::import but it can't do anything if it isn't actually called... This is why it is customary to have the package name match the file-name exactly, right down to case. :-) On Unix, of course, the file-system is case-sensitive so you will fail to find Strict.pm and this won't work.	[reply]
(Guildenstern) Re: strict-compliant code on windows by Guildenstern (Deacon) on Jan 23, 2001 at 00:20 UTC
This has actually bitten me more than once. There's nothing more frustrating that accidentally mistyping a variable name and trying to figure out why something doesn't work as expected because strict apparantly didn't catch any problems. Guildenstern Negaterd character class uber alles!	[reply]