On Sat Jan 03 2009 @ 9:21, David Newman wrote: > On 1/2/09 5:22 PM, Rob Dixon wrote: > >> #!/usr/bin/perl -w > >> > >> use strict; > > > > You should also use the warnings pragma instead of the command-line switch. > > > > use warnings; > > OK. Why is this better?
My understanding is that the pragma (use warnings;) is more flexible than -w. You can turn it off for specific blocks, for example, and it doesn't apply to modules or other files you load with 'use' or 'require'. See here for more: http://perldoc.perl.org/perllexwarn.html Hope this helps, T -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
