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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl strict Post 302276668 by buffoonix on Wednesday 14th of January 2009 10:35:09 AM
Old 01-14-2009
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Originally Posted by otheus
Bah.

Most of perl these days is modularized, with variables accessed through AUTOLOAD functions or entries in hash tables, for which "use strict" is useless.

In my opinion, if you have to use "strict", you're probably using the wrong programming language.
Interesting opinion, you may be right, for I don't claim to be a Perl expert.
It only happens that I quite regularly attend Perl conferences and workshops where the acclaimed Perl elite meets and gives talks and presentations.
Almost all the sample code presented at these events sticks to use strict and there seems to be common (tacit?) agreement that it is considered good style.
I'm not sure if you would suggest that e.g. Damian Conway is using the wrong language?
At least in his Perl Best Practices in chapter 18 in the pragraph on Stricture it reads, Always use strict, followed by some explanation why you should do so, but also that you cannot always rely on that it will capture every mistake.
Finally, if I use a well tested and proven useful module (e.g. one of the better ones from CPAN) I think I would rely most of the times on that the module author(s) have done a decent job in at least eliminating those bugs that stricture would capture.
It is more for the wrapping code that I add where I would like to make use of this extra parachute because I know too well how easily even typos happen whose unnecessary debugging would waste far too much time.
 

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Perl::Critic::Policy::TestingAndDebugging::ProhibitNoStrUser3Contributed Perl DocumePerl::Critic::Policy::TestingAndDebugging::ProhibitNoStrict(3)

NAME

       Perl::Critic::Policy::TestingAndDebugging::ProhibitNoStrict - Prohibit various flavors of "no strict".

AFFILIATION

       This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.

DESCRIPTION

       There are good reasons for disabling certain kinds of strictures, But if you were wise enough to "use strict" in the first place, then it
       doesn't make sense to disable it completely.  By default, any "no strict" statement will violate this policy.  However, you can configure
       this Policy to allow certain types of strictures to be disabled (See "CONFIGURATION").  A bare "no strict" statement will always raise a
       violation.

CONFIGURATION

       The permitted strictures can be configured via the "allow" option.  The value is a list of whitespace-delimited stricture types that you
       want to permit.	These can be "vars", "subs" and/or "refs".  An example of this customization:

	   [TestingAndDebugging::ProhibitNoStrict]
	   allow = vars subs refs

SEE ALSO

       Perl::Critic::Policy::TestingAndDebugging::RequireUseStrict

AUTHOR

       Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@imaginative-software.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Imaginative Software Systems.  All rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  The full text of this license
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