At 11:04 PM 8/3/00 -0500, J. David Blackstone wrote:
> As the initial proponent of the opposing RFC, I feel I should make a
>response. Let the will of the Perl6 community and Larry Wall prevail.
> I'm sure we'll all be mostly happy, no matter where that takes us.
I will hitch my wagon to your opposing RFC in no uncertain terms. (I am
rewriting this message several times to tone down the language here,
because I feel strongly about it but flames won't help.) A constant topic
of discussion is how to make Perl more accessible and friendly to the the
newcomer, and evidently not enough people or resources are explaining as I
do to my classes that -w and strict are essential for everything they
write. I won't even show them one-liners without them, I'm that adamant
about promoting the practice.
Make Perl as safe as possible by default; let people turn off the safety as
they get more experienced. Not the other way around.
I move for this change to the opposing RFC: Make -w and strict the default
in everything except -e and -z. (New flag. Mnemonic: zero
protection.) Then living on the wild side will cost one extra character in
the shebang line and nothing in one-liners.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
