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by thesuperbigfrog 707 days ago
>> i found it gives a lot of 'foot-guns'.

Most of those are for backward compatilibity with earlier versions.

Recommend you place the following at the top of your Perl scripts:

    use strict;
    use warnings;
These are recommended for all scripts: https://learn.perl.org/first_steps/