# from Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
# on Tuesday 31 July 2007 10:19 pm:
>On Tue, July 31, 2007 9:56 pm, chromatic wrote:
>> On Tuesday 31 July 2007 20:25:15 Salve J. Nilsen wrote:
>>> Turning off syntax checking of your POD is comparable to not
>>> turning on warnings in your code. Now would you publish code
>>> developed without "use
>>> warnings;"?
>>
>> Now that's just silly.
>
>Is it? Comparable. Capable of being compared. 1913 Webster.
You can compare them, but it is silly.
An uninitialized value might strike the user at runtime, so we leave
warnings on when we ship.
The pod will be unchanged, so we *test it*, and *then* ship it.
I like to put my socks on before my shoes, but after my pants.
Sometimes I put socks on before my pants, but shoes are always last.
--Eric
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Turns out the optimal technique is to put it in reverse and gun it.
--Steven Squyres (on challenges in interplanetary robot navigation)
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