I did not expect so much emotion...

But the whole discussion about the philosophical merits of using or not using strict is pointless to me - if you think that not using strict is fine with you so be it - no problem on my side.

I have just seen a lot of postings where people had code-problems that would have been obvious when run under strict, so I just got the feeling that when people with little Perl-experince used strict a little more a lot of trivial problems would get spotted immediately and they probably would not even need to ask the monks.

But anyway please don't start another discussion - evidently everything is fine as it is.