Re: Perl invocations

Shawn Corey misstated the issue, it isn't that -w can't be turned off, the problem is that it is turned on globally rather than lexically. That is, it forces warnings onto modules that may have been designed to not use warnings: $ cat T.pm package T; sub foo { my $x = shift; #

Re: Perl invocations

On Sun, 2017-07-02 at 11:16 -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 14:29:25 +0200 > Eric de Hont wrote: > > > What it boils down to: use warnings as well as -w works, but -w is  > > considered old fashioned. > > The problem with -w is that it can't be turned