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 co

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.