See, the thing is that without use strict you can't be sure that _all_ of your variables are declared. You may have missed one or two.

In my opinion any program that I'm going to use for doing "real" work will always have use strict and use warnings in it. And I always put them in from the start for precisely the reason that you're seeing - it's far harder to retrofit them later.

Of course, it's up to you (or, I guess, your manager) as to whether you're going to insist on making all of your code run cleanly under strict and warnings, but I know I'd feel uneasy having them turned off in any production code.

Of course, you can make it easier for yourself to do the clean-up in sections by making judicious use of the no strict and no warnings pragmas.

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In reply to Re: Use Strict needed? by davorg
in thread Use Strict needed? by Anonymous Monk

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