[Kc] Perl Noob

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from djgoku
# on Wednesday 19 September 2007 00:22:

>warnings are pretty early on seems to start on page 24 with 'perl -w
> script.pl'

As of (roughly) v5.6.2, -w is different though.  See perlrun and then 
perllexwarn.  With '-w', you're enabling warnings globally -- on all of 
the modules being loaded.  This is sometimes nice to check, but (e.g. 
in tests) not if the modules weren't tested with warnings enabled.

--Eric
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