[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Command-line flags on by default [-T -Mstrict -Mwarnings]:
>
> We already beat this to death with the .perlrc discussion. You'll
> break reams of Perl code you probably don't even know you have this
> way.
>
> It destroys the portability of Perl programs.
Yup, I agree. I actually was on the "this is a bad idea" side of the
discussion the first time around. Just throwing it back out there.
Not too sure about the whole -w on by default thing. Really makes me
nervous. All I keep thinking about is the crap that Java spits out every
two lines. Makes stuff really look unpolished, and the warnings change
based on the JVM platform and version you're running. In Perl, this
would create problems if new warnings are introduced later. All of a
sudden scripts that have been working correctly now start spitting out
warnings, and either you or your client is terribly confused.
Maybe I just need some time to warm up to it, but it still makes me
nervous... I think there's going to be so much stuff different in Perl 6
that the more similar we can make it to Perl 5 the better, otherwise we
risk driving people running from the building. And this is one thing
that seems like a "no brainer" for maintaining backwards-compat
behavior...
-Nate
