Re: Carp and croak instead of warn and die

Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:
> It would be useful if carp and croak were used in all modules instead
> of warn and die, thus also displaying the line number of the calling
> program, as well as that of the library function.
> 
> Whilst using die is acceptable if some batch process is being carried
> out, it is rather inconvenient for an application, where the whole
> thing crashes with no possibility to trap the error and the user has
> no opportunity to save work.
> 
> Or am I missing something?

Yes.

eval { foobar };
if( $@ ){
  # error trapped
}

This works regardless of if die, croak or exit was used. See `perldoc perlvar` and search for $@ and $SIG{expr} .


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