Re^3: iis ftp redirection

Is creative, useful, unconventional, functionality obscure and obfuscated and therefore frowned upon?

No, not using strict is just undisciplined. I feel pretty safe in saying that most good, creative, unconventional code is written by people who use strict strictly.

When I was a VB programmer, it was easy to divide a line between "stuff that was crap" and "stuff that we don't know about yet but might be crap or might be great stuff" by whether it used Option Declare. So I just utterly disbelieve you. Go write great stuff. I love great stuff. But use strict and disable it only for those small parts where you know it's the best thing to do at that moment.

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Re^4: iis ftp redirection by 3dbc (Monk) on Mar 24, 2006 at 00:19 UTC
*`"it was easy to divide a line between "stuff that was crap" and "stuff that we don't know about yet but might be crap or might be great stuff" by whether it used Option Declare."`* "Implicit variable declaration can make writing scripts faster and easier; at the same time, however, it can lead to subtle errors that are difficult to diagnose and fix." Does this definition contradict your statement? (Surprising since it is on M$ TechNet).	[reply]
Re^5: iis ftp redirection by diotalevi (Canon) on Mar 24, 2006 at 00:51 UTC
It's worth noting that one of the nicest, in a feel-good kind of way, improvement to my dev tool was when it could be configured to automatically insert `Option Declare` into everything it created. This prevented me from accidentally omitting it. Its when I'd forgotten to ensure that `Option Declare` was turned on that I'd just run across some bug allowed by the absence of the restriction. It's at those moments that I knew I had some pain ahead of me as I added `Option Declare` back in and went back to find the bugs that it had allowed to go undetected. So no. There's absolutely no good reason whatsoever to ever neglect to use `Option Declare`. There is occasionally a reason to revoke strict but you should never write a script without loading it. Heck, these days I've taught emacs to automatically syntax check my perl on save because that's also really valuable. The more checks that I get automatically, the better code I can write and the less time I have to spend fiddling with stupid plumbing that I've installed wrong. ⠤⠤ ⠙⠊⠕⠞⠁⠇⠑⠧⠊	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: iis ftp redirection by Tanktalus (Canon) on Mar 24, 2006 at 00:28 UTC
Actually, in my experience, that definition contradicts itself. It's those subtle errors that are difficult to diagnose and fix that makes writing scripts slower and more tedious. Unless, I suppose, we use "M$"'s definition where writing does not include testing and fixing, nor does it imply writing correctly...	[reply]