Re: warning handling in Perl scripts

On Jun 25, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> +1 for the concept of turning warnings into errors, but is that really
> the cleanest, most idiomatic way to do so in Perl?  Sheesh.

It’s the most backward-compatible, but the most idiomatic way to do it lexically is:
   use warnings 'FATAL';

However, that works only for the current lexical scope. If there are warnings in the code you are calling from the
currentscope, the use of `local $SIG{__WARN__}` is required. 

HTH,

David