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Arador (8415)
Saturday August 22, 2009
11:10 AM
use 5.011/5.012 should be progressive
As some may know, use 5.011 activates strictures. I think that's a good idea, but I don't think that's enough. I strongly feel that it should be more progressive than that. I think it should do what Modern::Perl aims to do implement: Some small, important and uncontroversial pragmas (as opposed to Perl 5i, which does do big and controversial things). My list of things would be:
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use feature '5.011'; -
use warnings; -
use IO::Handle; -
no indirect; -
use mro 'c3';
Anyway: I'd like to hear what other people think use 5.011 (and thus eventually use 5.012) should mean.
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because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)
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use 5.012 (Score:1)
It already does "use feature '5.011';". And it was hard to add even "use strict" - too much opposition. "use warnings" would have even more.
Sorry, no (Score:1)
Strongly disagree with IO::Handle and
warnings. Strictures are important, warnings are not (note that I almost always enable them).Would like
no indirect, but I doubt it’ll happen.Not opposed to C3, but indifferent.
Re: (Score:1)
What's wrong with
IO::Handle? 5.6 could have supported calling methods on lexical filehandles without loadingIO::Handleexplicitly without violating the Principle of Least Surprise. (I could argue that having an object you can't actually call methods on violates PoLS.)use warnings FATAL => 'all'; (Score:1)
I've been doing this for years in code without any problems, so I think it's a good candidate if strictures are going to be enabled.