[Raleigh-talk] life without use strict

Ian Kilgore iank at cpan.org
Thu Feb 12 11:08:01 PST 2009


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:02:56PM -0500, Trevor Little wrote:
> Yeah,
>    The example I e-mailed out was a minimalistic version of what I found  
> in live code. In the real code the '1' was passed through several  
> subroutines until finally getting dereferenced. The fact that we were  
> still getting the data we wanted at that point was sheer luck. Much could  
> have gone wrong. Anyway, thanks again for the help everybody. I guess this  
> goes into the "that's why my mother always told me to use strict" pile.
> 
> Trevor
> 
> -- 
> Trevor

Why was strict 'refs' off in live code?
-- 
Ian Kilgore
print/42;       # n/,"Just another Perl hacker,\n"
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