Re: RFC 12 (v3) variable usage warnings

[Tom Christiansen]

>Tom Christiansen wrote:
>> 
>> >It happens when I don't bother to declare something. My company has
>> >several dozen machines with an 'our'-less perl, and 'use vars qw($x)' is
>> >a pain. As is $My::Package::Name::x.
>> 
>> Far, far easier to fix behavioral problems than to hack Perl.
>> 
>> --tom

>Not sure what you mean, since this RFC _adds_ a warning in this case. In
>fact, with the proposed change, my trick to avoid punishment for my
>misbehavior would no longer work.

>The point is that if

>$x = 3;

>elicits a warning...

....that you should declare the variable properly, of course.

--tom