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in reply to Stupid mistakes I repeatedly make

On the subject of forgetting to use Data::Dumper;, my solution is to use some standard code templates so that I start out with a stack of standard "use" statements
use strict; use warnings; use Carp; $|=1;
Adding use Data::Dumper; to that list sounds like a good idea. I also have the template insert a standard pod framework (with the name of the file filled in automatically).

I do this in emacs, with the newish package called template.el.

And actually I run it using a emacs lisp package that I've been working on: perlnow.el. I've got separate commands for starting work on scripts, OOP modules, proceedural modules and *.t code, all of which use different templates.