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Thursday November 14, 2002
07:58 AM
Confusing the Newbies
I found this advice in a thread in a Linux newsgroup. The original question was typical newbie confusion about use strict forcing them to declare variables. Amongst all the advice (of variable quality!) on how to declare variables, I found someone saying that you could declare variables using syntax like:
use strict qw($foo);
The confusing thing is that it seems to work but, of course, it's not doing what the poster thinks at all. In fact, it has the potentially disasterous effect of turning "strict" off completely.
Perhaps it would be better if use strict complained if it got parameters that it didn't understand.
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Pedantic comment ahoy... (Score:2)
Oh, can I get a +Informative if I link to the thread [pm.org] on London.pm discussing this ;-)
Re:Pedantic comment ahoy... (Score:2)
No, because then everyone will see me being really stupid and not working out what was going on until it was explaned to me in very simple language :)
Re:Pedantic comment ahoy... (Score:2)
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But this would break davorg-inspired Acme::USIG (Score:1)
Perhaps it would be better if use strict complained if it got parameters that it didn't understand.
I'm shocked that a co-provoker of Acme::USIG would suggest something that would break this delightful module. USIG passes to use strict the URL of the original, historical and theatrical use strict is gay bulletin board exchange between BK, P.Cawley and D.Cross. Maybe I should file a bug report because this URL is long gone and should be replaced with the new and improved wayback machine one [archive.org].
Moreover, ha
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Re:But this would break davorg-inspired Acme::USIG (Score:1)
Or, you could just upgrade to Acme::USIG 1.02 [cpan.org] which had a patch from Kake for this very issue applied about a month ago.