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From: composer@chem.bu.edu (Jeff Kellem)
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Subject: Re: die
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Date: 27 Jan 91 02:25:38 GMT
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In-reply-to: rm55+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 26 Jan 91 19:12:53 GMT

In article <IbcRGpq00VpJ0Bs0RX@andrew.cmu.edu> rm55+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rudolph T. Maceyko) writes:
 > Date: 26 Jan 91 19:12:53 GMT
 >
 > From the man page:
 >
 > die(LIST) 

[..man page partial quote deleted..]

 > Well, apparently, lists aren't my best datatype in PERL ;-> because I
 > can't get die to Do The Right Thing with a list.  A string works fine,
 > so I can just concatenate everything if I wanted to....  However, die
 > doesn't work as advertised.

I suspect that the man page is incorrect, it should probably say

	die EXPR
	die (EXPR)
	die

instead of having LIST as its argument.  There is a single mention of EXPR as
the arg later in the man page under that same section, when mentioning that

    "If the value of EXPR does not end in a newline, the current script
     line number and input line number (if any) are also printed, and a
     newline is supplied."

I haven't glanced at that particular code, but I suspect that man page is in
error on this case (definitely an easier fix.. ;-).  Larry?

So, to do what you want.. just do..

	die "prog: $$: invalid process\n";

Cheers...

			-jeff

Jeff Kellem
Internet: composer@chem.bu.edu