Re: Warnings, strict, and CPAN (Re: Closures and default lexical-scopefor subs)

[Sam Tregar]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Bart Lateur wrote:

> Actually, it's pretty common. Only, most languages are not as forgiving
> as perl, and what is merely a warning in Perl, is a fatal error in those
> languages. Trying to read the value of an uninitialized variable, for
> example, that's commonly a fatal error. Failing to chdir, is another
> example.

Examples?  I know you're not talking about C or C++.  I'm pretty sure
you're not talking about Java - exception-handling renders the term "fatal
error" almost meaningless.

-sam