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I'm sorry, that's just wrong. A use strict would cause 60 completely unrelated and spurious errors to "jump right off the page" at our poor unsuspecting programmer. It wouldn't be helpful at all and probably counter-productive.

Nonesense. I copied the code into an editor, looked at it for a moment, added use strict;, and it took less than a minute and a half to work through the "unrelated and spurious" errors before identifying the culprit. If he'd started off strict, he (probably) never would have had this problem.

Turn on warnings instead. A -w in the #! line or a use warnings would make the problem a lot more obvious.

That's good advice, after problems identified by use strict; have been cleaned up. To jump right into -w is kind of like debugging stuff at run-time that still has compile-time problems.


In reply to Re: Re: Re: I/O problems...what am I missing? by dws
in thread I/O problems...what am I missing? by psychoto

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