Re: [MacPerl] Novice question regards subroutines

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 11.38 -0400 1998.09.27, Michael Houghton wrote:
>Some of us not-so-new Perl programmers make this oopsie from time to time
>as well...which is why I always make the first two lines of a new Perl script:
>
>#!/bin/perl -w
>use strict;
>
>I then assume that any error message is something I need to fix until I
>determine otherwise.

Very good advice.  Many of us here (including Matthias, and the two authors
of MPPE) dislike -w, to varying degrees, but at least I believe that while
-w has its problems, it is best to use it first and disable it later, at
the least.

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