Re: RFC 231 (v1) Data: Multi-dimensional arrays/hashes and slices

Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 08:51:04AM +1100, Jeremy Howard wrote:
> > Please no! Anything that makes it harder to write 'quick-and-dirty'
scripts
> > is never going to fly--this is part of what makes Perl special.
>
> Why?  I see no problem in making -Mstrict and -Wall the defaults.
> Then make '-E' option to mean what '-e' means today, and '-e' mean
>
>   -M-strict -Wnone -E
>
Personally, I wouldn't mind this, but relying on this change occuring in P6
will make our RFCs pretty flimsy, because I think it is unlikely to happen.
See the archives discussing RFC 6, 16, and others on perl6-language-strict:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language-strict%40perl.org/