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.


Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote:
> eval { foobar };
> if( $@ ){
> # error trapped
> }


Whilst that will work, I agree with Jeffrey. All modules should be using 
croak and carp for most almost all errors. That way, you know exactly 
what caused the error without wrapping every line in an eval wrapper.

Cheers!
Rick Measham