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Maybe that 'I-am...' should be added instead of all! On Jun 3, 2015 6:26 AM, "Paul "LeoNerd" Evans" <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 09:15:04 -0400 > Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > > > 'all' can remain available in warnings.pm and be made available in > > strict.pm, although I'd personally discourage turning 'all' on, > > except maybe in private testing, for the sake of forward > > compatibility. Yes, some existing code may be affected because it > > says "use warnings 'all'" explicitly, but we already add new kinds of > > warnings, we're just very circumspect in doing so -- as we'd continue > > to be in adding default warnings. No existing code does "use strict > > 'all'" because there is no "all" yet. > > I'd put massive warnings around > > use strict 'all'; > > because it is effectively saying > > use strict > 'I-am-happy-for-any-future-version-of-perl-to-break-my-program'; > > > With this in place, we can add more strictures and less-critical > > warnings without the worry that they're breaking old programs, > > because old programs won't have them enabled. > > This sounds like an excellent idea; we do have a number of pragmata > sitting around that would make good strict.pm candidates... > > +1 from me > > -- > Paul "LeoNerd" Evans > > leonerd@leonerd.org.uk > http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS >Thread Previous