Re: Why isn't C<use strict> the default?

[etcshadow]

perl -lne 'END{print$x}$x+=$_'

Perl one liners are nice. Don't forget that, although perl is also an awesome fully-featured programming language, it's roots are as a command-line data-processing tool (ala sed, awk and even grep). Who wants to spend those extra characters in a -e?

Don't get me wrong, I like strict in anything more than a few lines long, but I also write a lot of stuff that's less than a few lines long.

[demerphq]

This argument doesn't addresss the fact that one could arrange it so perl would turn on strict and warnings for code from any other source than -e but leave -e code unencumbered.

[Aristotle]

Or you could have another name for the binary that makes perl assume use strict; (and maybe warnings also)…

#!/usr/bin/perls
no swine;