Re: Why use strict/warnings?

[FoxtrotUniform]

Just thought I'd throw in something else that I haven't seen posted yet: saying

use strict;

lets anyone else who reads your code know that you know what you're doing, which makes a difference when they read it. (They can, for instance, assume that if they see an unqualified variable in a subroutine, it's local to that sub, and not some sort of magic state that affects other parts of the code.) This makes your code easier to read, which makes everyone happier.

[mugwumpjism]

That's all well and good, until you see the next line:

use vars qw($CONFIG $my_loop_var $fileno $window_size ....)

Perhaps we need a new pragma:

use Schwern;   # Schwern is my bitch.

I'm sure the people reading the code would get the gist then.