Re^4: How many man-hours would you estimate you have invested in learning Perl?

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Sure, you want warnings turned on... for your own code. That's what use warnings is for.

Why would you want to use a global setting to cause other modules to throw warnings even though they are operating as intended? (as in the example)

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Re^5: How many man-hours would you estimate you have invested in learning Perl? by educated_foo (Vicar) on Apr 09, 2013 at 17:12 UTC
For one example, "-w" catches all kinds of data errors, from premature EOF to non-numbers where you expect numbers, when you pass a file handle to someone else's code. You'll get false positives, but you will also get a hint where the problem lies when you are getting unexpected results. Fix the ones you care about, remove the "-w" when you're done, and there you go. Monstrosities like "strictures", which turn on all warnings but only in your code, will not only miss these errors, but complain about non-problems.	[reply]

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Re^5: How many man-hours would you estimate you have invested in learning Perl?
by educated_foo (Vicar) on Apr 09, 2013 at 17:12 UTC

For one example, "-w" catches all kinds of data errors, from premature EOF to non-numbers where you expect numbers, when you pass a file handle to someone else's code. You'll get false positives, but you will also get a hint where the problem lies when you are getting unexpected results. Fix the ones you care about, remove the "-w" when you're done, and there you go. Monstrosities like "strictures", which turn on all warnings but only in your code, will not only miss these errors, but complain about non-problems.

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