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At 02:37 AM 2/17/01 -0500, schwern@pobox.com wrote: >On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:03:54PM -0800, Edward Peschko wrote: > > Right now, I do a search on the standard distribution, and I see > > 'use warnings::register' in 13 out of 270 modules. Make 'use warnings' the > > default, and you'd bet that there would be a big push to make the standard > > distribution clean. > >No, there will probably be a big push to shut it off, based on >historical reactions to this sort of thing. Maybe I'm missing something; I'm sure the philosophy is for the standard distribution to be -w clean, so shouldn't everything be equally okay with use warnings? > > THAT DOES NOT WORK. First of all, your syntax is off - the > > '-Mw..-Ms..' one will ignore the '-Mstrict' part and generate an > > error because -M can only take one argument. But more importantly, > > THIS IS NOT UNIVERSAL AND CANNOT WORK IN A UNIVERSAL SCOPE. > >Hmm, its damned silly that you can't give two modules on the command >line. ??? $ perl -Mwarnings -Mstrict -le 'print keys %INC' Exporter.pmCarp.pmstrict.pmwarnings.pm -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design TechnologiesThread Previous | Thread Next