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in reply to Re^3: RFC: Tutorial: use strict; now what!?
in thread RFC: Tutorial: use strict; now what!?

The solution is pretty simple: if your code isn't doing what you expect, run it with "perl -w". This may point to your error (along with a bunch of other non-errors); if it does, you can fix it and move on without having to contort your code to placate warnings.