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Postings from October 1999
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 12:58:49AM -0500, Ed Peschko wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 08:59:08PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > >Have you considered > > export PERL5OPT='-Mstrict -MDBI -MIO -MData::Dumper' > > yes, about five minutes ago... Now if you could compile a default value for this > into a perl executable, I'd be in heaven... I think you'll regret it very fast. It's a long way down to earth... Doing so will effectively create your personal (personalized) perl. Any time you show someone a neat and handy perl script, the other person will not be able to reproduce your results. After a while you forget about the personalized setup, and you'll start wondering why other people's scripts do not run as expected. Or why your script does not run on another system. Or with a newer Perl version. I would definitely choose for a clearly visible approach, like require "/usr/share/perl/common.pl"; (and always carry a floppy with the most recent common.pl with me). -- Johan