Re: Warnings, strict, and CPAN (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs)

[John Porter]

Edward Peschko wrote:
> NOTE: to perl5 users - by default, perl is doing more up-front error checking.
> To get the old behavior, you can say 'perl -q' in front of your scripts, 

Yep; the perl manpage has said, since time immemorial, that 
the fact that -w was not on by default is a BUG.

So changing this in Perl6 doesn't seem like a big leap to me.
It's essentially the same as saying that all the deprecated
perl5 features will be absent in perl6.0.

-- 
John Porter

You can't keep Perl6 Perl5.