On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Chris Thorman wrote:
> There's another factor, here, unfortunately: -w warnings.
>
> I personally never use -w, unfortunately, because it warns about not
> only variables being used before they are first set (usually a good
> thing to warn about) but also the use of variables whose value is
> undef, which is a perfectly legitimate and time-honored tradition in
> perl.
A lot of people create a $SIG{__WARN__} block to catch those warnings. In
fact that's pretty much the only use of $SIG{__WARN__} I've ever seen ;-)
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