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On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 06:20:33PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > First, let me see if I understand what you'd like. Most of this > discussion has been paged out of my brain my now. I think you are correct with what needs to be done, but rjbs can confirm. > We'd also say that if you in the past wrote: > > use warnings FATAL => "all"; > > You'd just need to change that to: > > use warnings FATAL => "default"; > > Or better yet: > > use warnings 'FATAL'; If that's what the author wants. I suspect many who write use warnings FATAL => "all"; will want to leave it just like that. > And finally, we'd change all the warnings.pm documentation to > recommend "default" instead of "all", and note how if you want to > write programs that function as intended for post-v5.24 and pre-v5.24 > you need to conditionally enable either "default" or "all". > > E.g. if you need the recommended set of fatal warnings you should do: > > use warnings FATAL => $] >= 5.024000 ? "default" : "all";' If you are targeting 5.18 and earlier, yes, otherwise you can get away with the plain use warnings "FATAL"; It's a shame that that is rather messy, but I suppose you can make a good case that users of "FATAL all" have made their bed. -- Paul Johnson - paul@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.netThread Previous | Thread Next