Is it a good idea to eliminate compiler warnings?

Question

In the past I\'ve worked with -Wall and other switches for gcc to eliminate every compiler warning for projects I\'ve been involved in. Similarly, in Perl, I always program wit

Answer 1

My opinion. Yes.

Like you said at the end. It helps make the real errors more prominent.

When you run a Perl cgi script that outputs warnings on an Apache Server, the warnings get logged in error.log. Why waste the space. Fix the warnings.

Also I think it's a learning experience to better understand the language, and compiler. I didn't realize dynamic scoping was even a feature of Perl until I started using strict.