Re^9: RFC: Tutorial: use strict; now what!?

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... in fact, they're off by default.

That's no argument against either one. (I agree that some of the default warnings are questionable, but that's a different discussion.) Plenty of things have the wrong defaults: Unix crypt, C's string handling, Perl 5 optimizing its defaults for awk-replacement one-liners instead of programs, and more.

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Re^10: RFC: Tutorial: use strict; now what!? by Xiong (Hermit) on Feb 28, 2012 at 20:14 UTC
I hope nothing I've written can be taken as an argument against strictures or warnings. I merely place them in the proper light: as tools, not magic shields. I'm not the guy you kill, I'm the guy you buy. —Michael Clayton	[reply] [d/l]

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