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----- Original Message ----- From: <abigail@foad.org> To: "Peter Scott" <Peter@PSDT.com> Cc: "Tom Christiansen" <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>; <bootstrap@perl.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 3:25 AM Subject: Re: Complex Problems vs. Simple Tools > On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 07:08:23PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: > > At 07:53 PM 7/24/00 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote: > > > >By way of further inflammatory suggestions, I would like the (less) > > > >strictness levels to be install-time options, so that sites can make > > > >policies for their developers that prohibit some or all strictness being > > > >turned off in their perl. . . . [lot's of good stuff deleted here] . . [this - from Abigail's reply] > Coding standards are good. But everyone has their own ideas on what good > coding practise is. > > I do not think it's Perls task to force coding standards, or even any form > of strictness by default. Abi - with respect. Giving site admins the ability to enforce the use of 'use strict' and -w might well be a step forward in terms of how Perl is seen by corporate I.T. management. If options like this could be specified at compile time it would give those sites *who* *want* *it* the ability to enforce them. The rest of us (hmmm, not me probably) would continue as we are.... Mike