Re: use warnings, was Re: problem with rand on OSX

From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} (dformosa_at_zeta.org.au)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: 30 Sep 2004 20:24:46 +1000

"David H. Adler" <dha@panix2.panix.com> writes:

[...]

> For one thing the warnings pragma is more flexible than -w. On the
> other hand, if you're using a sufficiently old version of perl, it does
> not exist.

With 5.8.0 you could switch off -w dervived warnings using no warnings
'blah'; just as effectively as if you used use warnings; And -w takes
only two keypresses. 

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