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Re: But cluck gives you more.

by steves (Curate)
on Dec 29, 2004 at 16:03 UTC ( [id://418004]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to But cluck gives you more.
in thread How do I get Cluck output into a log file?

longmess and shortmess do include caller information. The key is how deep you are in the stack, as Carp has a set of rules for deciding how much stack trace (if any) to include. I'm not 100% sure the rules are consistent across all the calls. Here's a test program that illustrates. Maybe a monk with more Carp knowledge can comment. I need to think about it some more ... I suspect there's some nonobvious consistency here.

use strict; use Carp qw(cluck); sub test_errors { cluck "First test message"; my $long = Carp::longmess("Second test message"); my $short = Carp::longmess("Third test message"); print STDERR $long; print STDERR $short; test2(); } sub test2 { cluck "Fourth test message"; my $long = Carp::longmess("Fifth test message"); my $short = Carp::longmess("Sixth test message"); print STDERR $long; print STDERR $short; } test_errors();
produces:
First test message at cluckt line 8 main::test_errors() called at cluckt line 30 Second test message at cluckt line 30 Third test message at cluckt line 30 Fourth test message at cluckt line 21 main::test2() called at cluckt line 16 main::test_errors() called at cluckt line 30 Fifth test message at cluckt line 16 main::test_errors() called at cluckt line 30 Sixth test message at cluckt line 16 main::test_errors() called at cluckt line 30

Basically, longmess and shortmess appear to always include one less stack frame than cluck does. Maybe someone should cluck about this. ;-)

Note that I got the same results by calling longmess and shortmess directly in the print calls rather than getting the messages into local variables first.

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