Well.... I think this sort of goes back to the answering the bigger question question. I know that you said over there that you are the 'answer the bigger question' type, so I suppose your comment here is in character. But I think 'just answering the question' is okay too, and that's what I did here - the OP was not looking for style points, and even mentioned that s/he knows that s/he should be using strict, etc. So I chose to simply answer the question that was asked...