Re: carp always showing stacktrace

By this link I've found the answer how to distinguish difference among these functions: What's the difference between Carp/Croak, Cluck/Confess, and verbose options?. Unfortunately there are no any mnemonic rules to memorize their usage.

Too hard to foresee meanings of these four C-words, when they express something very similar each other. I understand that using them makes Perl lexicon richer even more poetical, but logic is definitely lost.

warn - carp (critisize) - cluck (sound like a chicken)
die - croak (sound like a frog) - confess (recognize about sin)
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Just for lulz. cluck looks like Russian клац (meaning something similar to click-clack a weapon). Croak is pronounced closer to кряк, which means in Russian to sound like a goose. In the other hand, quack is pronounced exactly like croak in Russian.

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Re^2: carp always showing stacktrace by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 21, 2020 at 14:08 UTC
I personally find the names intuitive but the meanings are idiomatic and perhaps overly cute/clever for non-native speakers. Cluck also means to “wag one’s tongue.” Croak is also to die; even used as a verb to kill. Confess is to explain a sin at length or in detail. Alliteration is a kind of mnemonic. Update, typo corrected via hippo. Life imitates me imitating life -> :P `s/tonue/tongue/;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: carp always showing stacktrace by LanX (Saint) on Jul 21, 2020 at 12:37 UTC
Thanks for the SO-link ... I totally agree with you that this naming is unfortunate. To the point that I can't read my own modules w/o comments. Now I'm pondering about aliasing them in my own modules, to help me understand my code expanding the text from SO with potential aliases. `There are 2 sets of yes/no options. The function can be fatal (like die) or nonfatal (like warn). It can report just the line where the function was called, or it can report a full backtrace.` `Fatal Backtrace Alias carp N N warn_user ° cluck N Y warn_full croak Y N die_user confess Y Y die_full` [download] FWIW: Renaming subs is easy in Perl. `warn_user = \&Carp::carp` Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery} °) it's not* warning the `caller`	[reply] [d/l] [select]