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On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 at 06:47, Chad Granum <exodist7@gmail.com> wrote:
> What about auto-including the 'feature' if the very first line (second if
> there is a shebang) started with the 'module' keyword? That would be very
> unlikely to break compatibility with existing code, and allows less
> boilerplate for module-only files. Might not need the block scope in such
> cases either.
>
Too fragile...
Compare this:
module Example { print "$x" } # compilation error, since `use strict` is
in effect
and this:
# See examples/whatever.pl for practical uses of this module
module Example { print "$x" } # since this is no longer the first line, we
have no `strict`, no `warnings`
Plus all the usual versioning problems - defaults that seem reasonable now
will be outdated by the time Perl 5.46 is released.
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