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Re: Is the warning fatalization mechanism in fact safe (specificalyFATAL => 'ununitialized')

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On 27 December 2014 at 12:17, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit-p5p@rabbit.us> wrote:
> Over the years I have heard several off-the-record remarks that the FATAL
> warning mechanism is in fact rather broken and can not be relied upon.
Sorry to stray, but --
In my opinion fatal warnings should be removed from perl. This is possibly
the most evilest language misfeature ever.

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