Re: Pre-RFC - "use warnings" by default for all non-one-liners

[Tom Christiansen]

>Despite the groans from the peanut gallery, 

Whatever.  We've got too damned many falsies already.

>Funny thing is, I can't think of a case at the moment where such
>information would be useful.  I'm also a little worried about
>implementing the details of such a propsal.  Consider the following...

>    my $bar;

>    foo();
>    foo(undef);
>    foo($bar);

>    sub foo {
>        my($arg) = shift;
>        print $arg;
>    }

>All of these cases would produce a "Use of undefined value" warning
>from print because in all cases, shift returns undef.

Let's please not invent more *REALLY*CONFUSING*CRAP* just because
people are too lame to check their variadic functions' varying @_
for its length.  You won't solve that ignorance or carelessness
but through education.

--tom