On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 08:21:56PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: > Whenever I write Perl code, I always enable 'strict' and 'warnings'. As you > will notice from the source code > (http://search.cpan.org/src/JKEENAN/List-Compare-0.13/Compare.pm), I did so > in writing List::Compare. It would seem to me that this may be a situation > where since (a) List::Compare is now production code, and (b) I want to get > more backward compatibility, I should turn off 'warnings' (and perhaps > 'strict') in the module and assume that the user is going to use it in the > script which invokes the module. What do you think?
If you're pretty sure of List::Compare's stability, then turning off warnings in distributions would make sense, but turning off 'strict' won't be neccessary. Alternatively, you can also put a "use 5.006;" in both Makefile.PL and the module to signify your use of the warnings pragma. Which one makes more sense is up to you, the module author, to decide. :) Thanks, /Autrijus/
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