On Jan 20, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Tom Allison wrote: > I don't think ruby -w quite does what perls 'use strict' pragma will > allow. That's correct, -w is similar to Perl's warnings. > Under strict every variable must be identified, if not vartyped. > my $foo; > > This prevents me from doing something like: > > my $super_ids; > ... > print $super_id,"\n"; > (note the typo) Ruby requires we declare a local variable before we use it, so you are all set. ;) James Edward Gray II