Re^2: Debugging "Use of uninitialized value" warnings.

Agreed. I generally try to code defensively, but in the context of my original question, I am trying to make the defensive code implicit (Perl automatically tells me when and where I used an uninitialized variable) rather than explicit (adding code to check if a variable is unitialized then dying/warning if it is).

Both have the same result, but I think the former results in cleaner code.

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Re^3: Debugging "Use of uninitialized value" warnings. by gloryhack (Deacon) on Apr 04, 2007 at 04:54 UTC
It'd be a handy feature to have, certainly, but I'm not aware of any easy way to get it. If there were a pragma to turn on verbose warnings of that kind, I'd have a new love. My wife might not like it, though, because I'd spend all of my days and nights just gazing lovingly at perl...	[reply]
Re^4: Debugging "Use of uninitialized value" warnings. by TOD (Friar) on Apr 04, 2007 at 05:09 UTC
i'm not sure, but maybe you try fiddle about the `use warnings::register;` [download] pragma. http://perldoc.perl.org/warnings.html	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Debugging "Use of uninitialized value" warnings. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 04, 2007 at 16:14 UTC
You mean `no warnings 'uninitialized';`?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Debugging "Use of uninitialized value" warnings. by gloryhack (Deacon) on Apr 04, 2007 at 22:30 UTC
Not at all. I mean more like `use warnings 'verbose'`, if it existed, so that instead of `use of uninitialized...` we'd get `$foo is uninitialized in... at line 42`.	[reply]
Re^6: Debugging "Use of uninitialized value" warnings. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 05, 2007 at 01:21 UTC
Re^7: Debugging "Use of uninitialized value" warnings. by gloryhack (Deacon) on Apr 05, 2007 at 03:40 UTC