> > If lexical variables are the default, then 'strict vars' will be
> > totally unnecessary because it will be impossible to forget the 'my'.
>
> Actually, this is what I suggested as well, but was promptly shot down
> by Nat and others. The more I think about it, I think I understand why
> you
> Because perl is for the lazy. I want an easy way to arrange for all my
> programs to run under strict/warnings, should that be my inclination.
It already has a run-time option; You can set the environment variable
PERL5OPTS to contain '-Mstrict -W'.
Now, do you, Michael Stevens, actually *hav