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From:
David Golden
Date:
June 10, 2008 13:09
Subject:
Re: Fwd: New CPANTS metrics
Message ID:
5d4beb40806101308o6017b25dka25502fc0bf39392@mail.gmail.com
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Eric Roode <eric.roode.phlpm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well of course not.  But "use strict" is simply a tool for helping
> developers write modules and programs more correctly.
>
> I guess it does show the end-user of a module that the module author
> is smart enough not to shoot himself in the foot.  The module author
> might be smart enough without strict.pm too, but how can one tell?
> I guess that's the CPANTS logic.

My hope is that a module author smart enough not to shoot himself in
the foot is smart enough to understand why this is a good practice to
encourage among those not so smart.

David

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