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by coolmichael (Deacon) on Oct 02, 2002 at 02:17 UTC
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Last month, I began a computer science degree. I quit my job and
everything. I'm so much happier in this life. Its interesting,
and most importantly, challenging.  One of the classes I am
forced to take is trying to teach me perl. Damn. Too bad I know
perl better than the prof. Today, he admitted that yesterday he
learned what my does. Ouch. After three days of lectures, he
mentioned use strict. OUCH!.  We got into an arguement during
class. He was saying that  #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $a=3;
print $d; ------------------ Global symbol "$d" requires
explicit package name at line 4. Execution of aborted due to
compilation errors. wouldn't generate an error, because it's ok
to assign to varriables that haven't been declared. Nope. That's
what warnings is for. My respons