On 06/14/2018 10:45 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
I think the message is obscure for a reason: the last thing you want is for someone to make an insecure module look "safe" by just dropping that pragma into it. You want to make them think about what they are doing.
I hate always having to ask about these things. I feel sometimes like I am asking others to do my homework. One of my big issues is that I can not always tell when a word is being used as its English meaning or its Perl meaning. If I think it is English, it does not occur to me to look in the documentation.