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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Why does die with no args exit in eval?
Message-ID: <8592@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 4 Jul 90 00:05:42 GMT
References: <438@oha.UUCP> <8537@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <603@inpnms.ROCKVILLE.DG.COM>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <603@inpnms.ROCKVILLE.DG.COM> logan@rockville.dg.com (James L. Logan) writes:
: 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?

That's more or less what I just said was going to happen.

Larry