[draegtun]

Well, it has to be, because it's too difficult to second-guess when Perl will DWIM and when it won't

I've personally never seen this issue when testing perl code.

So you have to move a whole lot of complexity out of where it should be, the compiler, and into your own head and your own code

Actually the perl compiler with use strict; use warnings catches a lot more at compile time compared to most other dynamic languages.