Re: [ID 20000125.006] strict.pm not strict enough

["M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

Greg Bacon <gbacon@itsc.uah.edu> wrote
> IOW, C<use strict 'foobletch';> is a nop.  I can see how one might
> construe this as a backward compatibility feature, but if a programmer
> casts a spell of protection, Perl ought to thump back for using false
> magic.

This is a deliberate feature  -  see the last time this was discussed
on p5p.     The reasob is so you can write in your module

     use strict 'new_feature_introduced_in_perl6';

and still have the module usable under perl5 (but without the new check
of course).


Mike Guy

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