[vox-tech] perl never ceases to amaze me

vox-tech@lists.lugod.org vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:46:09 -0500


On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 02:19:05PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote:
> It works on non-3 groups (pardon my M$)

  Generally perl will not generate any warnings unless you ask for 
them.  With a -w or use warnings; .  the not _always_ in your face
warning mode makes it a wonderful quick and dirty scripting language...

> C:\>perl tmp.pl

  perl -w tmp.pl

and you should see a complaint.