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in reply to Re: Perl best practices fanatism
in thread Perl best practices fanatism

I frequently come across some module or program that spends dozens of lines needlessly predeclaring variables.

Got an example? By what criteria is it needless? Code evolves sometimes, sometimes defaults change, what you end up is with a lot of predeclaring, none of it is needless.