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<blockquote><em>Has anyone else ever thought this way?</em></blockquote>
Yes. People have argued for that many times at p5p. But p5p is (IMO rightly so), extremely careful not to break their customers (that is, anyone using perl5) code by doing a simple upgrade.
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If you make strictness a default, code <em>will</em> break. That gives a lot of negative karma for Perl. It's decided it's not worth it.
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Oh, and if you argue "but adding <c>no strict;</c> isn't that much work", then I counteract with <c>use strict;</c> is only one character more - so, it's not much work, is it?
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