Re: as long as we are discussing 'nice to have's...

[Johan Vromans]

Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I discovered today that I had forgotten to put 'use strict' at the top of
> one of my modules...it was in the script that _used_ the module, but not
> in the module itself.  Putting it in instantly caught several annoying
> bugs that I'd been trying to track down.
> 
> It would be nice if there was a 
> 
>       use strict 'recursive';

Good reasoning, although this occurs to me as trying to kill a fly
with a nuclear bomb.

The essence of modules is that they are independent, and are
unaffected by outside pragmata. This is what makes them reusable.
A 'recursive' pragma would break that. 

-- Johan