Jenda Krynicky wrote: > From: "Rob Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Don't put \n on the end of a die string, otherwise the Perl > > interpreter won't tell you the line number of the failure. > > Well it's good to know you'll get the line number and source file > name if you omit the newline, but ... most often you do not want it > there. What would you think of a program that responds to you with > > Cannot find file Foo.txt at script.pl line 26. > > ? Looks like the programm crashed, not that it just compains that the > user entered an incorrect filename. If it's a message that's supposed > to be seen by lusers you most probably do not want the source info > appended.
Jenda, surely you appreciate that this is not a production program? Even if it were ever to be one, which I doubt, it is at present being debugged of the most basic problems. At this stage the cosmetic appearance of a warning message cannot surely be more important than how much it assists the development process? I would concede that I should have also pointed out that the $! diagnostic should have been included, but I consider line numbers on die messages to be as important as enabling warnings during development. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
