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Re^4: Should I use carp/croak or warn/die

by jeffenstein (Hermit)
on May 30, 2018 at 17:43 UTC ( [id://1215487]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Should I use carp/croak or warn/die
in thread Should I use carp/croak or warn/die

I can only guess why Larry & Co. did it this way, and that guess would be that it was to preserve backwards-compatibility with perl 4, which already had the current interface for warn and die.

Did caller exist in perl 4? It kind of makes sense to use a different interface since modules got a lot of changes in 5.0

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Re^5: Should I use carp/croak or warn/die
by afoken (Chancellor) on May 30, 2018 at 21:52 UTC
    Did caller exist in perl 4?

    According to http://www.rexswain.com/perl4.html, caller existed in Perl 4, and so did die and warn.

    Alexander

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Re^5: Should I use carp/croak or warn/die (perl4)
by shmem (Chancellor) on May 31, 2018 at 00:04 UTC

    From the perl.n manpage of perl 4 patchlevel 36:

    caller(EXPR)

    caller Returns the context of the current subroutine call:
    ($package,$filename,$line) = caller;
    With EXPR, returns some extra information that the debugger uses to print a stack trace. The value of EXPR indicates how many call frames to go back before the current one.
    perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

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