Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!inpnms!logan
From: logan@rockville.dg.com (James L. Logan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Why does die with no args exit in eval?
Message-ID: <603@inpnms.ROCKVILLE.DG.COM>
Date: 3 Jul 90 22:40:02 GMT
References: <438@oha.UUCP> <8537@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Organization: Data General Telecommunications, Rockville, MD
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In article <8537@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:  
# 
# Mmm, let's just say the "die" routine was coded by a stupid programmer
# before eval even existed, and he didn't anticipate that die should always
# be trapped by eval.  The programmer has been severely reprimanded and promises
# never to do it again.  The problem will be fixed in the next patch.  If you
# give a null argument to die it will now be as if you said

I have a question along the same lines:  why is it that "die;" by
itself does not print anything?  When I throw together a quick,
one-time hack, I don't need the verbosity of  

	die "$MyName: cannot do whatever: $!";

and I don't want the script to die without saying anything at
all.  I just want:  

	script died at - line 20

Is there any reason this shouldn't be the default?

			-Jim
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