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Strange (Score:2)
My observations over many years are that the only people who have problems with the lack of strict variables are Perlers who are new to Ruby, and who are still writing monolithic top-down scripts. It's really a non-issue in practice. Running with -w helps, too. It sure beats the heck out of typing 'my' everywhere.
Re:Strange (Score:1)
Oh really? So you think Joshua and me are the kind of people who write spaghetti monoliths in Perl? So far I’ve seen this complaint only from Perl programmers I considered competent. Maybe that’s because only competent Perl programmers have come to take the protection of strictures for granted? Just a possible alternative interpretation of the… well, it’s not data, it’s just anecdotes.
You know, I’ll gladly type three extra characters every half-dozen lines if it means I don’t have to write a whole test case and manually suss out the source of its failure before I spot a mistake. You can do it the other way around if that’s what you prefer.
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