Sorry but, even if your phrase holds a truth value, you are wrong in many levels.
- die can be overriden in one way or another, and start returning something!
- my $c = 'shat'; eval { $c = DBI->connect(xxx) || die } keeps the old value in $c (instead of putting undef there, like or would do), and this may not be what the user wants...
- it would be nice if people grew accostumed not to mix = and || inadvertently.
So,
my $c = DBI->connect(xxx) or die is the right idiom for good reasons.
[]s, HTH, Massa (κς,πμ,πλ)
