Thanks for reminding me of this, Bart, if RFC 88 co-opts die for non-fatal
errors, people that want to write fatal errors can switch to using "warn
...; exit ( 250 );" instead of "die ...;" like they do today. [Tongue
firmly planted on cheek.]
Bart Lateur wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:24:23 -0600 (MDT), Nathan Torkington wrote:
>
> >Compile the main() program code into a subroutine called 0, and you're
> >off!
> >
> > &0 anyone? :-)
> >
> >(that's digit 0, by analogy to $0)
>
> What would be nice about this, is that then you could use "return" in a
> script to stop execution. I don't like "exit", because you can't trap
> it, if ever you wrap the code in another script.
>
> open OUT, ">do.pl";
> print OUT "exit\n";
> close OUT;
> print "before\n";
> do "do.pl";
> print "after\n";
>
> Or, "die" should have a way of stopping the program without a warning
> message.
>
> --
> Bart.
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