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> The basic usefulness of warnings is not in question. This is about
> the *perception* of their utility. Warnings are only useful if the
> user heeds them. The question is, will having them on by default make
> the user more or less likely to respond?
>
> There was also eariler discussion that this might encourage people to
> cover up large sections of lousy code with a C<no warnings> thus
> further burying potential errors and actually worsening the situation.
> Some ideas were kicked around to have a way to globally override C<no
> warnings>...
This is what the -W command-line flag does.
> but it seems like we're right back to having to remember
> -w again.
Paul
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