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A few times in either perl core, or some modules like syntax modules, I've found places where I've wanted to add very-optional warnings that aren't enabled by default, but suggest to the author that "you're doing something a bit weird here", or maybe "eh; this feature might be removed in a later version so you want to swap to something else", but it isn't yet a problem that should warn for end-users. I'm thinking there ought to be some standard way to enable these non-default warnings that both perl core and whatever modules can all follow, to enable these things. I'd then want to enable that when doing my author testing so I can see these extra things. It shouldn't require any source changes (so any lexical pragmas etc.. are no good) because I'd want to optionally enable it during auther testing alone, but I wonder about using an environment variable. For example, I could $ PERL_WARN_ME_HARDER=1 ./Build test t/00use.t ..... Hey you probably shouldn't be doing this weird thing at Foo.pm line 123. t/00use.t ..... ok Before I try to create something new (or just propose the-above), I wonder: Are there any existing precedents for this kind of thing already? -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/Thread Next