On Dec 15, 2004, at 5:36 PM, Abhijit Mahabal wrote:
I think that "slackness-on-demand" is a better policy than "strictness-on-demand", but that, again, is just my opinion....
Until now, the policy in Perl has always been that it is as slack and forgiving as possible, and you have to ask if you want it to be strict with you. I hope that doesn't change.
--Dks
There should be little reason to complain so long as it is drop-dead easy to turn on slackness. S01 says:
# Perl 5 code is not strict by default, while Perl 6 code is. But it should be easy to relax with -e or maybe even a bare version number:
perl -e '$x = 1'
#!/usr/bin/perl -e
$x = 1; #!/usr/bin/perl
v6; $x = 1;Of course, you can counter that with "there should be little reason to complain so long as it is drop-dead easy to turn *strictness* on". But in either case, people are going to trip over this, expecting one(strictness/slacknesss) but getting the other. In one case (expecting slackness, but getting strictness from the compiler) it would be easier for the compiler to know that they have in fact tripped.
--abhijit
