From: Terrence Brannon <brannon@...>
Date: 2000-12-10T06:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6983] Re: perl and ruby



> "Joseph McDonald" <joe@vpop.net> writes:
> 
> > A couple of things I noticed which sort of annoyed me:
> > I had to predeclare the hash and the scaler.

In well-written Perl code, that is, code written under use strict, you
would predeclare all variables you use too.

I am strongly against the "fast and loose" programming that Perl allows
you to do unless you put 'use strict' at the top of your program.

-- 
Terrence Brannon